Hi All.
I was wondering if someone had a recipe for a boot disk with a virus scanner that could automatically update.
I'm often called upon by friends and family to fix their machines. Lately, that's become "please kill this virus my kid got on MY machine." The thing is, while I'm much better at it than any of them, I'm barely on the totem pole when it comes to some of the experts here. I've been running into some nasty viruses that take over the machine and won't even let you in the control panel or taskmanager because they set your account to LIMITED!
Some time ago, I followed a recipe from Maximum PC magazine and made a Bart PE boot disk. It worked once or twice but lately the network drivers won't take and it won't update. It's also not executing the scan (stops immediately with an error) and I believe that's because there's not enough room in the virutal drive it makes. I just can't get it to work anymore.
So what I'd like to be able to do is boot the machine and have a virus killer or two ready to run (preferably from the CD) and kill the viruses as they sit on the helpless hard drive. It sounds easy but the closest I can come is that Bart PE thing. Maybe I can still use that Bart system but is there a better option than Clamwin that will either run from the CD itself, or make a secure directory on the hard drive itself, then WORK?
Thanks!
I was wondering if someone had a recipe for a boot disk with a virus scanner that could automatically update.
I'm often called upon by friends and family to fix their machines. Lately, that's become "please kill this virus my kid got on MY machine." The thing is, while I'm much better at it than any of them, I'm barely on the totem pole when it comes to some of the experts here. I've been running into some nasty viruses that take over the machine and won't even let you in the control panel or taskmanager because they set your account to LIMITED!
Some time ago, I followed a recipe from Maximum PC magazine and made a Bart PE boot disk. It worked once or twice but lately the network drivers won't take and it won't update. It's also not executing the scan (stops immediately with an error) and I believe that's because there's not enough room in the virutal drive it makes. I just can't get it to work anymore.
So what I'd like to be able to do is boot the machine and have a virus killer or two ready to run (preferably from the CD) and kill the viruses as they sit on the helpless hard drive. It sounds easy but the closest I can come is that Bart PE thing. Maybe I can still use that Bart system but is there a better option than Clamwin that will either run from the CD itself, or make a secure directory on the hard drive itself, then WORK?
Thanks!