[wellylug] Cleaning Windows

Callum Grant callum.el.grant at gmail.com
Wed Feb 10 20:47:45 NZDT 2010


Sure I wouldn't think that it's impossible, you might have to just end up
installing lots of commercial antivirus software on it (e.g. AVG because
sadly Clam AV isn't perfect yet).

I can't think of any dedicated anti spyware apps though.

Cheers,

Callum

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Ray Smith <nazgul748 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I often repair PCs for friends. One reoccurring problem, from one
> particular friend, is viruses and malware out the wazoo. I recently had to
> pull the hard drive, attatch it via usb to my Linux box, and clamav it. Clam
> found 80 or so infections and removed them. Wonderful. When I reassembled
> the thing, all hell broke loose. I had to run malwarebytes, ccleaner,
> spybot, and avira to finally remove the other 150 plus infections (including
> Antivirus 2010 and Security Tool). Is it possible to create a Linux
> environment that would have the functionality to do this in one step? Oh,
> and just for the record I'm not kidding, over 230 infections.
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> Ray
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