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Stanley Brinkerhoff wrote:
| Generally though -- it seems like more work than its worth (in my humble
| opinion) to go through all the trouble of Linux, and it still isnt a
| perfect fix..

Is there a "perfect fix", short of 'format C:' followed by animal
sacrifice? ;-)

Stan's process is very thorough, and represents what is probably the
most complete course of action. If you don't have access to AV software
on bootable media, though, and/or you'd like to try the "scan with
Linux" route, ClamAV is a good option. Use a live CD distro like Knoppix
(looks like you work for GMA, so I suspect you have access to some
bandwidth...).

If the live CD you download doesn't include ClamAV, you should be able
to get it easily as long as the distro supports unionfs. (For Knoppix:
'apt-get install clamav' should work.) Don't forget to update your
signature database after installing (with 'freshclam').

I'd _still_ follow the "safe mode/process pause" steps of Stan's
procedure afterwards. At the very least, though, a preliminary scan from
a live-CD distro would reduce the number of issues that you need to deal
with in a manual fashion.


Cheers,

- -sth

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