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Can I attach my infected Vista HDD into an XP set and do a
Virus/Malware scan? Will it find and clean Registry items as well as
files?

thanx
 
plugginaway said:
Can I attach my infected Vista HDD into an XP set and do a
Virus/Malware scan? Will it find and clean Registry items as well as
files?
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Yes, you can probably have your XP computer scan that disk for
viruses. But it won't know there are registry files there (it will
look for them in the proper place on your system disk), so they will
be scanned like other files.
 
Good.

But if the Reg entries stiil exist, they won't run anything because
the files will have been cleaned??

so then I put it back in the Vista set, and scan it to clean the Reg?

thanx
 
Hi,

Better to load the registry hives into the other installation and clean them
that way. Many bugs have checks built in to see if their files have been
removed and can recreate them if they have. As well, a system can hang for a
considerable length of time if it tries to load a missing file, so better to
concentrate on removing the load entries and not just the infecting files.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
OK, but plz be more specific.

ie, infected set is Vista, good set is XP3.

the hives are the user.dat, etc. so just copy them o the XP drive
and clean them??

thanx
 
Nope. Run regedit, click on a branch, then click File/Load Hive. Navigate to
the other system's hives and load one of them. Give them a temporary name so
you know which line to unload afterwards.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
I'm conversant with about half of that - enough to screw it up. I have
edited other hives before; but this is more serious.

when I load them, I guess I will then just search for the offnder?
Antispy2009?

thanx
 
Hi,

Essentially yes. Once the hive is loaded, you can pick through it like you
would any other registry branch. It will just be a sub-branch of one of the
ones of the current installation. When you're done, click on the top level
folder and then on File/Unload Hive.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
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