Linked by David Adams on Fri 25th Sep 2009 16:17 UTC
A non-OSNews-reader asks: "I've got 5 PCs that I'm trying to use to train disadvantaged young people. The problem is they are riddled with viruses and a firewall blocks me from updating them. The people in charge of maintaining the
PCs won't fix them or give me the admin password (Win XP) to let me
install a new or updated antivirus. The centre is being shut down in a
few months. If they were working, I could still do a lot with them, so I've been
looking for a good online virus scan - but they all try to download a
little .exe onto your PC first, and the settings on the PCs won't
allow that. Suggestions? Solutions? Links?" Read on for our recommendation. Update: It appears that this question is part of an elaborate email scam designed to propagate malware. See here for details.
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2007-10-26
The only way I've successfully battled with infested computers (and not been able to physically put the sick harddrive in an external bay and scan it) was to use ubcd4win. It's a boot cd that you create yourself using a noninfected system as a template. This way you get all msft:s file system drivers etc and a proper environment for windows programs to run. When you boot from it, the bad programs have not been started and cannot therefore fight back.
The nice thing with ubcd4win is that you can download programs and install on the ramdisk. Thus you'll always be able to use the very latest versions which is essential.