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The Easiest Way to Recover an Infected Systemcontributed by Prof J C Nash, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada First get Knoppix, which is a bootable liveCD linux. Free download from lots of sites. It has great partition management in QTParted. Also has good file checkers and testdisk, and lots more. Since it runs off the CD, it does not affect the hard drive and will not be affected by the virus on the infected machine. Twice now I've rescued virus-infected machines. Do this: 1. Boot Knoppix on the sick machine. It automatically finds the network for most systems. 2. Create a directory on a portable external hard drive. There are many available, and at very low cost. You can also use a network drive. Mount and make the drive read/write (Knoppix does this in right-click menus). 3. Using the Knoppix file manager, move whatever data you want to keep from the infected machine to the external drive. 4. Trash the existing setup. Format the hard drive (C:\) on the infected machine. This wipes everything clean, including programs, your data, and the virus. 5. Remove the Knoppix CD, and then reinstall Windows. 6. Put in a good antivirus program. It's very important that you do this BEFORE the next step. 7. Selectively recover the files you want from the external hard drive; one or more of the EXE files, DLL, or whatever will be infected. The anti-virus program will tell you which one and what to do.  If you got here via a search engine, click here to go to the start |
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