Half OT/ How to remove a virus on windows using Ubuntu

[Ashley Benton]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi at gmx.de> wrote:

> Ashley Benton wrote:
> > Hi, I am using Ubuntu 8.10. One of my neighbors ask me to fix his
> > computer and I am stuck. The computer is Windows 2000 and doesn't work
> > at all by itself
>
> This one puzzles me. A virus/Trojan/you name it infection nearly never
> renders a windows computer to "doesn't work at all". Are you sure, virus
> related issues are the only problem that you  are having here?


It seems so about 5 trojan and 2 adware generic, Anyway all the CPU is used
and the computer completely unresponsive. I tried the live cd and it also
became unresponsive. So I just mounted the hard drive on my computer, no
more problem.

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> so I mounted his hard drive on my computer. From Ubuntu
> > I tried a few anti virus programs but the only things they do is find
> > the viruses . Since I don't know Windows I don't want just to delete the
> > files or system. Is there a program that I can use from Ubuntu to fix
> > his Windows and get rid of the viruses?
> Every virus scanner that I know of, both Linux and Windows, offers three
> options on how to handle a virus that has been detected.
> 1. Just warn
> 2. delete the affected file(s)
> 3. move those files to a save place
>
> Use option 3.
>

I have no option, it just tell me which files are infected with what and
where. I tried clamav, and avg. I also tried avast but it only crashed.

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> I would have save the documents
> > and reinstall his Windows but there are no rescue cds or floppies and I
> > am a little lost as I don't how I can help him anymore.
>
> Ask him, if he prefers to work fully virus-free in the years to come?


I did a while ago and he is not ready for a change

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