The Scenario
A friend of mine has got lots of probably viruses and related malware on a laptop, with Windows XP SP1. He doesnt know alot, but started getting concerned when a variety of pop-ups and 'bizzare' things started appearing. He had neither anti-virus, firewall nor anti-spyware installed.
I went around last week (could only stay for a couple of hours) and ran the usual stuff - AVG free edition, Zonealarm, Spybot S&D and Ad-aware. Before all of that i ran Trend Housecall, find it to be very useful. Trend Housecall couldnt complete. Spybot & Adaware found loads of stuff, but Spybot also couldnt complete. Worryingly, Zonealarm WOULDNT install correctly, although i could see it running in task manager. it also refused to un-install, not even in safe mode!!! Then the internet connection dropped out. Seemed bad news. Am going around tonight to see if i can complete the job and remove whatever might be there, as well as leave it SP2'd and firewalled etc etc.
My Question
Given that something might in fact be on there, i was wondering if I could run a CD install of Linux (Knoppix to be exact) and then virus scan Windows?? I Found this link here although couldnt find exactly what i wanted.
Does anyone have any thoughts or experience?
I know my friend was stupid, and i think he has learnt his lesson. This may well end up needing a complete re-install, but am hoping to prevent that likelihood....
Cheers


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