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I currently do NOT use any antivirus or anti adware type software.
I'm pretty computer savvy, practice good email / download etiquette,
have my router fw and know the processes in my task manager pretty
well. To my knowledge I've only been bit once in 7 years of heavy
internet use by adware that created havoc on my computer. I was
fortunate to be able to get in and kill the process enough in task mgr
before it spawned more processes that would prevent me to getting to
system restore to bring the pc back to an unaffected state.
My question is this:
If you don't already have AV or anti adware software already installed
on your system and you get a virus that makes it impossible to do
anything meaningful on the win desktop, how would one be able to clean
up the system? What tools or basic steps would one need to take?
Do recovery CD / live disks exist for this kind of thing? Can anyone
recommend one?
Does windows xp provide any mechanism to (safe mode???) boot into a
non viruse'd system and THEN install a PC cillin or SpySweeper etc and
run it to clear out the offending binaries and then reboot as normal
[this assumes per my notion above that the PC would be so far gone
that i wouldn't be able to install AV sw or do anything meaningful
with it in a normal boot]
Am i making sense. It's kind of like a catch 22 question.
I'm curious how pros attack this in the real world because i'm the
defacto PC guru for friends and family. Many don't run AV type sw and
I know i'm going to get hit with the task of restoring some day in the
future. In fact, i might get bitten myself and have to restore my own
foobar'd system.
thanks
I'm pretty computer savvy, practice good email / download etiquette,
have my router fw and know the processes in my task manager pretty
well. To my knowledge I've only been bit once in 7 years of heavy
internet use by adware that created havoc on my computer. I was
fortunate to be able to get in and kill the process enough in task mgr
before it spawned more processes that would prevent me to getting to
system restore to bring the pc back to an unaffected state.
My question is this:
If you don't already have AV or anti adware software already installed
on your system and you get a virus that makes it impossible to do
anything meaningful on the win desktop, how would one be able to clean
up the system? What tools or basic steps would one need to take?
Do recovery CD / live disks exist for this kind of thing? Can anyone
recommend one?
Does windows xp provide any mechanism to (safe mode???) boot into a
non viruse'd system and THEN install a PC cillin or SpySweeper etc and
run it to clear out the offending binaries and then reboot as normal
[this assumes per my notion above that the PC would be so far gone
that i wouldn't be able to install AV sw or do anything meaningful
with it in a normal boot]
Am i making sense. It's kind of like a catch 22 question.
I'm curious how pros attack this in the real world because i'm the
defacto PC guru for friends and family. Many don't run AV type sw and
I know i'm going to get hit with the task of restoring some day in the
future. In fact, i might get bitten myself and have to restore my own
foobar'd system.
thanks