Re: malware infesting windows part of dual-boot

2012-01-16 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi Charles, On 13/01/12 19:04, Charles Blair wrote: I have the lenny release of debian and windows XP as a dual- boot using grub 0.97. The debian system (of course) seems to be working fine, but I've gotten some malware (of course) on the windows side. Can somebody recommend software

Re: malware infesting windows part of dual-boot

2012-01-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:40:56 +, Brian wrote in message <20120113194056.GE2926@desktop>: > On Fri 13 Jan 2012 at 13:04:16 -0600, Charles Blair wrote: > > >I have the lenny release of debian and windows XP as a dual- > > boot using grub 0.97. The debian system (of course) seems to > > be

[OT] Re: malware infesting windows part of dual-boot

2012-01-14 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:04:16 -0600, Charles Blair wrote: > I have the lenny release of debian and windows XP as a dual- boot using > grub 0.97. The debian system (of course) seems to be working fine, but > I've gotten some malware (of course) on the windows side. > > Can somebody recommend s

Re: malware infesting windows part of dual-boot

2012-01-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 07:57:21PM -0600, John W. Foster wrote: > On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 00:45 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Vi, 13 ian 12, 13:04:16, Charles Blair wrote: > > > > > > Can somebody recommend software (preferably free) that > > > will deal with the bad windows stuff without

Re: malware infesting windows part of dual-boot

2012-01-14 Thread keitho
If you obtain a Trinity Rescue Disk (free download online) you can boot from that and run four different anti-virus softwares with one command. If I remember correctly, you can designate which partition to use them on. Using TRK: First, run updatetrk, then: virusscan -n -a clam;virusscan -n -a fpr

Re: malware infesting windows part of dual-boot

2012-01-13 Thread John W. Foster
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 00:45 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 13 ian 12, 13:04:16, Charles Blair wrote: > > > > Can somebody recommend software (preferably free) that > > will deal with the bad windows stuff without trashing the > > linux system? I'm concerned that running standard-issue

Re: malware infesting windows part of dual-boot

2012-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 13 ian 12, 13:04:16, Charles Blair wrote: > > Can somebody recommend software (preferably free) that > will deal with the bad windows stuff without trashing the > linux system? I'm concerned that running standard-issue > diagnostic and treatment stuff will tamper with the boot > sector

Re: malware infesting windows part of dual-boot

2012-01-13 Thread Brian
On Fri 13 Jan 2012 at 13:04:16 -0600, Charles Blair wrote: >I have the lenny release of debian and windows XP as a dual- > boot using grub 0.97. The debian system (of course) seems to > be working fine, but I've gotten some malware (of course) on > the windows side. > > Can somebody reco