On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear all: > I am a Fedora 7 user running ClamAV to protect my data on my PC > (though they're extremely rare). However today I ran into problems. My > girlfriend uses a WinXP system, which became severely infected by > viruses. Now she is going to make a system clean-up. The plan is: > > S1. Copy all her important data to a portable media; > S2. Re-format her entire file system (thus destroying everything) and > re-install WinXP; > S3. While she's doing 2, I scan the portable media using ClamAV on my > computer, and (possibly) remove the viruses which might have been > 'backed-up' along with her regular files; > S4. Copy the (possible) ClamAV-scanned data back to her computer. > > The problem is that whether Step 3 can be realized. I don't know > whether ClamAV is able to detect Win32 PE viruses. I'm fairly > confident that the PE viruses could not infect my system but I'm not > sure whether I can detect them. > > I know the above procedure is rather absurd... However I haven't came > up with other ideas. The situation is that she will stick to WinXP and > I cannot afford a Win32 antivirus software, and worst I'm not familiar > with Windows. > > I appreciate your suggestions. > > Cong > > PS. If you find my English bad, please pardon me --- I'm not a native > Englihs speaker. Thank you for your patience. > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html >
The Micro$ disk format program doesn't completely nuke a hard drive. Use your Fedora system and badblocks to nuke her drive to brand new drive status. The Micro$ format program lifts some data off the drive, does it's formating thingy and puts the info back down on to the drive. The 8 megabyte section beyond the Micro$ partiton is replaced exactly like it was before the re-format. After you scan and remove the nasty stuff on her drive, just copy her critical data back on to her freshly installed drive. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
