I don't understand why this thread is getting this much attention... Is this problem really about Thinkpads? I don't think so.
Ray ________ Inside every older person is a young person wondering, 'What the heck happened?' On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Alex Austin <[email protected]>wrote: > That is an excellent idea (backup, leaving out the exe/dll/com/... files). > One logical extension to this would be to use the SystemRescueCD. It's a > bootable linux system that has NTFS support, but it's command-line based so > you need to know what you're doing for it to do any good. Anyway, boot it > with the "docache" option and it'll load completely into ram. From there, > use utilities on the disk to burn needed files onto CD/DVD before > reformatting the machine. > > - Alex Austin > (651) 238-9273 > > "...and then I visited Wikipedia ...and the next 8 hours are a blur." > > > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:19 PM, STeve Andre' <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Friday 22 May 2009 11:51:32 Paul A. Pennington wrote: > > > Sorry, I should have explained why I want to do this. It seems > every > > > time a friend asks for help with his computer, it's so choked with > > viruses > > > that it takes hours to do the simplest task. There's never a backup, > so > > > reformatting is not an option. I need a bootable CD to clean up the > hard > > > drive enough to make a backup of the data files in a reasonable time. > > > Frequently, the old computer is going to the recycler after the files > are > > > retreived, so reloading does not come up at all. > > > > > > Andre', thanks for the tip. I'll take a look at the F-Secure CD. > > Does > > > anyone else have experience with an Antivirus Rescue CD? > > > > > > Paul Pennington > > > Augusta, Georgia > > > > If I may, let me make a comment about this. > > > > I too get diseased systems with a plea of "help...!" all too often these > > days. And yes, backups are illegal in most states judging from the > > lack of them. > > > > So what I do is take the disk out and stuff it into one of my OpenBSD > > boxes and make a copy of the disk with tar. I then have a copy of > > the filesystem, so I can expunge the system with a rebuild. I simply > > do not rust AV programs to be able to fix a compromised system. > > They can usually defend against stuff, but once something has > > crawled into a system, thats it. The only way to kill it is to rebuild. > > > > But before I put the users data back in place, I removed all .exe, > > .com, .dll, .scr, .msi, ,inf and .pif files, trying to lessen the > > likelyhood > > of bringing back some little treat from the infected filesystem. > > > > --STeve Andre' > > _______________________________________________ > > Thinkpad mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
