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

[Eberhard Roloff]

Ashley Benton wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi at gmx.de 
> <mailto: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.
> 
> 
> 
>     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.
> 
I am sorry, my statement was wrong. Indeed I know positively, you can 
set those options with fprot.

in contrast, I just tested with avg and could not find any options to 
handle the virus except announcing, what is infected and deleting any 
virus found, possibly after pausing for user input.

regards
Eberhard