Bootable antivirus CD

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Luchezar Georgiev

An unattended bootable CD image with the McAfee console antivirus scanner

Here (http://avcd.hit.bg/) you can find a 115 MB bootable PicoXP SP3 CD
image with the McAfee console antivirus scanner that starts automatically
and will clean any detected malware (also on systems where Vista is
installed). System requirements: 128 MB of RAM or more (not tried on
systems with less RAM but might work). I would not be able to update it
daily as McAfee do with their virus definition files but will try to update
it every 10 days hoping that it will still be useful to as many people as
possible.

Last update: 19 January 2009
Definition files version: 5500.

Enjoy!

Luchezar Georgiev
Bulgaria
 
Luchezar Georgiev said:
An unattended bootable CD image with the McAfee console antivirus scanner

Here (http://avcd.hit.bg/) you can find a 115 MB bootable PicoXP SP3 CD
image with the McAfee console antivirus scanner that starts automatically
and will clean any detected malware (also on systems where Vista is
installed). System requirements: 128 MB of RAM or more (not tried on
systems with less RAM but might work). I would not be able to update it
daily as McAfee do with their virus definition files but will try to
update it every 10 days hoping that it will still be useful to as many
people as possible.

Last update: 19 January 2009
Definition files version: 5500.

Enjoy!

Luchezar Georgiev
Bulgaria
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This is very well worth consideration
http://www.avira.com/en/company_news/new_rescue_cd.html
Best Regards
 
El.Plates пишет:
This is very well worth consideration
http://www.avira.com/en/company_news/new_rescue_cd.html
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Before making my CD, I've tried a similar CD called the Ultimate Boot CD,
which has AVIRA "on board", and it couldn't detect anything. By contrast,
McAfee detected and removed the W32/Sality virus plus a couple of "Trojan
horses". Therefore I decided to offer the others what worked for me... :)

While I disinfected the PC using a Windows PE boot CD and the command line
scanner on an USB flash drive, I thought it'd be much more convenient if I
combine them into one CD, using the ultra-lightweight PicoXP which doesn't
even support any GUI, just console programs like the McAfee virus scanner.

While this scanner is freely available it needs a good environment to work
in, and I think that PicoXP is the lightest possible one and therefore the
best choice. I hope that the combination I made is useful for other people too.
Best Regards
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My best too!
Luchezar
 
Luchezar said:
An unattended bootable CD image with the McAfee console antivirus scanner

Here (http://avcd.hit.bg/) you can find a 115 MB bootable PicoXP SP3 CD
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while it's always nice to hear about someone developing bootable av
tools, what really interests me is this picoxp - i'd never heard of that
before... thanks for the heads up...
 
kurt wismer пишет:
while it's always nice to hear about someone developing bootable av
tools, what really interests me is this picoxp - i'd never heard of that
before... thanks for the heads up...
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You are welcome! PicoXP was written by Peter Schlang. It's a script for the
WinBuilder, which in turn was written by Nuno Brito. The old name of PicoXP
was NanoXP and who knows, some day it may become even FemtoXP or AttoXP ;-)

Regards,
Lucho
 
jacory said:
i've tried to use your bootable CD image (on a USB microdrive) but it
keeps saying there is an "error loading operating system" must it be
loaded on a CD to work properly? or is there something else that i am
missing? additional info: the computer is running XP. the trojans are
freezing windows when it loads. thanks for any help!
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Why not try one or both of the following free programs, if your computer
will boot.
1)SuperAntiSpyware (SAS for short)
2)MalwareBytes Anti-Malware (MBAM for short)
 
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