[ale] OT: offline malware removal tool for windoze

[Robert L. Harris]

http://www.livecdlist.com/?pick=Linux_x86&showonly=Windows+Antivirus&sort=&sm=1


Thus spake Sid Lane (jakes.dad at gmail.com):

>    pls don't flame me for asking this but...
> 
>    one of my son's teachers asked me to look at her laptop which I would
>    ordinarily NEVER do but she is a teacher & her son is one of mine's
>    friends.
> 
>    anyhoos, I booted it (off our network naturally) and am running what tools
>    it has on it (M$ & Brave-Sentry?) but the BS thing won't remove anything
>    w/o activating (paying) & apparently M$'s won't work offline.
> 
>    this thing is owned bigtime to the point I'm afraid to plug it into my
>    network at home (forget about work) for fear it could be a pron zombie
>    (which happened to someone I know in '03 & they're still dealing w/the
>    legal fallout but at least aren't in prison - yet...) - I don't have any
>    specific reason to suspect it is other than Brave-Sentry(?) has found 67
>    pieces of malware on this thing, several of which are zombie-warz.  I
>    could/would install other/better tools but I'm afraid to connect this
>    thing to the net.
> 
>    does anyone know of any malware removal tools I could run from a
>    CD/offline (ideally booting from it as well)?
> 
>    I'll tell her to get legit anti-virus/etc but at this point I don't trust
>    anything that's running from within windoze to fix the problem.
> 
>    thanks for any advice!

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