Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Monday, 19 November 2007, Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov wrote:
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A good toolkit for Windows is the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows at
http://www.ubcd4win.com/
Phil:I found that Grisoft AVG (I use their free anti-virus program in
Windows) has a free tool:
AVG Anti-Rootkit Free
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-rootkit-free/lng/us/tpl/v5#details
and I downloaded that.
It uses BartPE, discussed earlier, but adds a lot more tools, including
rootkit and antivirus scanners. A clean install after data recovery is
still the best bet.
I'll look into Ultimate Boot CD for Windows, after I get this box up
and running again. I will either get that or BartPE. Thanks!
I recovered the data from the NTFS partition this morning, so I am
ready to "learn by destroying". The consensus of opinion from Ross and
you is that I should bite the bullet and do it correctly. Wipe the HD
and do fresh installs. Time consuming it will be (especially
installing the Windows aps), but, I will have a better system and I
will learn. For several months, I've wanted to install/use the free
VMware Server, but I don't have space on the HD to do much with it
now. One of the suggestions, from Alain, was to have WinXP running
virtually, under CentOS. I am contemplating devoting about 75% of the
HD capacity to CentOS. Installing a lean WinXP in English, and dual
boot with CentOS, and then install VMware Server and install WinXP in
English, in virtualization.
The "KISS" technique (fdisk /mbr, run the anti root kit program,
reinstall GRUB and restore grub.conf) is tempting and would probably
work, and would be much faster, but I still wouldn't have the kind of
system I will have with the more time consuming approach.
All the ideas everyone who has responded to this thread have thrown
into the basket for consideration are deeply appreciated! Lanny
I think it's been mentioned in the thread, but since you don't talk
about this in your summary above: one thing I would recommend is create
(at least) 2 partitions for MS: a small (5 to 10 G) for the system, and
a larger one for data.
then use norton/symantec ghost to generate images of your system
partition, and whenever windows starts fucking up just squash it with
one of the images. Takes a few minutes to restore a clean winXP, a bit
longer upgrading drivers and apps and remaking an image if necessary (if
the latest snapshot was old).
I usually keep several images: post-install without any drivers, that
plus OS tweaks (shutting off useless MS junk etc), that plus latest
drivers, and same plus apps.
This works wonders for me! No more headaches with my gaming machines (or
my friends' and family's PCs ;-) )
you can probably do this with linux tools as well if you don't want to
buy ghost.
regards,
Nicolas
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