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Full of Virus

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saipradeepg
saipradeepg Original post #1
May 28, 2008 at 3:19 PM
Hi,
I have an external HDD 160GB.
Due to circulation of the same across my friends, its infected with full of virus..
Lot of funny things happen when i connect the same to my pc.
I tried cleaning the same with Symantec Antivirus with the latest updates available over the net.Can anyone suggest me other solutions of deinfecting the same? without formating the disk?

In advance thanks a ton!

Best Regards,
Pradeep
dheeraj_kumar
dheeraj_kumar #2
May 28, 2008 at 3:42 PM
NOD32 antivirus
Ad-Aware or SpyBot Search n Destroy antispyware
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eGlueWeb #3
May 28, 2008 at 5:00 PM
I usually clean the virus from my friends' windows machine by booting their machine to a Live Linux CD and removing the hidden viruses. Now a days the virus I see is a autorun.inf in every drive (which will have a line to the actual virus/worm/trojan). These may be hidden from windows, but crystal clear from a Linux.

You just need to remove the autorun.inf and the virus it refers too. Then run msconfig and uncheck all of them. If you know good enough about registry, remove the entries from it too. Otherwise don't touch them. These steps are risky, unless you know what you are doing.

If the above seems confusing to you, move to Linux and enjoy a virus free world. :) The forum Open Source Forum in TD is just for you :)