Recently I was asked by my neighbor to take a look at his laptop and see if I could help him clear a virus off of it. After spending some time trying to get McAfee Enterprises to work I realized with a bit of horror that what ever virus was on the computer it was blocking Internet ports and controlling what was coming in and out.
I discovered this when the Virus updates were not being allowed in and when you used ANY browser it was auto redirecting everything.
Well, the solution for this was suggested by Scott Kitterman (Thanks Bro) and worked brilliantly.
Use a LiveCD (I used Kubuntu but, the same will work with Ubuntu as well) and open up the software sources to allow for Universe.
Install KlamAV (KlamAV is the KDE Front End for ClamAV)
Mount the NTFS disk and scan. It worked like a charm and a couple hours later I returned the Laptop without the virus. I quickly preached about the horrors of using LimeWire.
Hope this can help someone else out there for fixing major Virus issues with Windows.
Tags: clamav, KDE, KlamAV, Kubuntu, limewire, Virus, Windows, XP
i ve had situations like this also and before i would do the same thing you did until i found out that i could just hand them an f-secure livecd and make sure they know how boot from it. and it start scanning. a friend labeled it “magic cd”
the only inconvenience is that you dont have a desktop.
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I actually make a CD specifically for this sir
I have maintained it for a few years now mainly as a public service as I do not have many uses for it nowadays. Comes with a slew of other tools to repair computers.
http://www.volatileminds.net/opendiagnostics/index.php/Main_Page
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I had the same problem from some time now but as windows wasn’t really my main OS I was just neglecting the fix.
After reading your blog post in Ubuntu Planet I just gave it a try and it worked flawlessly! I’ve never thought that Clamav could even work for such a problem. It’s indeed a very handy and useful piece of software, and I will recommend it in future.
Thank you so much for the tip!