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

[Ashley Benton]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Bart Silverstrim <
bsilver at chrononomicon.com> wrote:

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> Ashley Benton wrote:
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> > Thanks I will try to find out and ask my neighbor for the key. I actually
> > copied all the hard drive on ubuntu so if I do something wrong I'll just
> > copy it back on the hard drive and try again.
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> Straight copy not a good idea. Things like boot sector won't work that
> way, unless you DD'd the drive to get a sector by sector copy.
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> Better idea would be partimage or something like it. That will make an
> image and compress it with a slightly nicer interface than using dd. You
> specify the drive device to copy and where you want to create the file,
> and it'll do most of the work for you...
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> I didn't know if by copy you meant a straightforward cp -R or dd
> or...well, you get the idea. If you have the drive space, dd would have
> the advantage of creating a raw image that in theory you could mount
> with a loopback and browse later if you needed.
>

No by copy I mean select everything and move it to Desktop where it looks
like it is there. I will search for partimage in the synaptic and see if I
can understand it before to move farther.

Thanks
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