Re: XP and Viruses question
  By: Mike Powell to All on Sun Nov 25 2007 07:55 pm

 > I am working on my sister's PC.  It most certainly has a virus and/or some
 > other trojan process running.  It is an XP machine.  I know that I can use
 > an XP CD to boot from, to run things like CHKDSK, etc., but is there a way
 > to boot with a CD to do a virus scan/clean on the HD?
 >
 > The machine does not appear stable enough at this point to run anything
 > while logged on.  I think whatever is done will need to be done by booting
 > from an alternate source.
 >
 > I have tried going into Safe Mode, but whatever it is that has it infected
 > appears to have block any access in that manner.  I get a BSOD every time.
 > I guess it still lets it boot "Normal" so that it can
continue to control
 > the PC.

System Restore?


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