Looking for antivirus/recovery tools to fix a windows machine...

[Hranj]

Hey guys. Not sure if this belongs here or not but I'm gonna go for it and see what happens.

My girlfriends computer has been on the fritz for some time now its its because it has trojans and viruses and everything under the sun. What I want to do is boot into a live cd, run some antivirus/antispyware tools and clean it up to the point where I feel safe copying this information to my hardware.

I'm not sure if something like this exists but it would be most excellent if there was. Links would be great. If not I guess I'll just have to weed through all her files and pick out what we need and want.

Thanks a lot.

[jerrrys]

http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/

[HermanAB]

BartPE:
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

[nucleuskore]

http://www.ubcd4win.com/

[ooobooontooo]

One extra thing I would add is that when when I spent my days fixing windows boxes, sometimes when there were really bad trojans or rookits, I would recommend the user to do a clean reinstall of the machine because you never know is there are still backdoors around. That was probably a run-on sentence...but blah 5 in the morning...

[Astral Moon]

Hi,

Try this, Spybot search and destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html

Gets rid of almost anything.

For antivirus try Avast Home. This is also free.

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

Hope this helps you

[ooobooontooo]

I belive Spybot S&D and Avast are both Windows applications. They run relatively well, but for more annoying interesting malware, they won't work. You can check out some forums that try to get rid of malware from the windows side if you want. Here's one: http://spywareinfoforum.com/

EDIT: Here's my addition to the list of linux tools that can be used: http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front_id=12

[khelben1979]

List of antivirus software on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_antivirus_software).