On Friday 24 August 2007 16:16, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Those trojans trash very many files whenever anyone tries surgery on them. > That was found out in a security lab by security professionals. If you > can get to a friends computer and download the dban iso file from > http://dban.sf.net and burn that on a single session CD and boot it up on > the infected machine and at the boot prompt type autonuke dban will return > your hard drive to the state it was in before it got its first operating > system. Once finished, shut the machine down and leave it off for a > minute. That should clear the memory. If security professionals had a > hard time, I'm sure I wouldn't have a chance. dban will take a day to > clear a 300gb disk. Figure 8 hours for a 100gb disk.
Why do you believe a security erasure is needed rather than simply starting with a fresh block zero? If infected, the OP can use a Debian Installation CD and make new partition tables. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]