I also like SystemRescue CD for a bootable live distro.

http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

Or a Fedora 9 Live CD.

However, I've found that the Redora 9 CD sometimes doesn't recoginize SATA
laptop drives.


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sth wrote:
| Any chance of attaching its disk to another machine for inspection? Or
| booting your webserver using Knoppix? You could, then, mount the hard

I neglected to mention that I would opt for the Knoppix route, so that
the running OS would be ephemeral. In the (unlikely?) event that your
virus (or rootkit) is able to activate itself while the HD is mounted,
you won't be exposing another important system: Knoppix can always be
"refreshed from media" with a reboot. :-)


Cheers,

- -sth

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| Bjorn Behrendt wrote:
| | Please help, I don't know how to clean a virus from a linux webserver.
| | My webserver keeps flooding our network untill everything crashes, and
| | when I did a manual backup the other day my antivirus poped up with an
| | infection, see attached.
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