Vista Partition caught a bad virus

[Danoz]

Short of reformatting (which I really, really don't want to do given the software and information I have stored on the drive) is there a way to boot from a virus scanner and registry cleaner of some kind? A bit of background:

I run Ubuntu as my primary partition, but I keep Vista for several programs and access to certain Windows Utilities. I logged in recently to see my AVG had at expired-- and, while I was waiting for the new download, (stupidly) decided to browse the internet and stream a family guy or something and almost instantly had a virus (pretending to be a virus scanner on startup) install itself and restart the computer. Because I'm so used to a work computer with ESET NOD32 Antivirus and network safety and the kind of cavalier browsing that Ubuntu allows for-- I got sloppy.

Any suggestions? I'm having trouble even getting in to run AVG, Spybot and Adaware, and it's unable to delete several malicious trojans and files.

I know it sounds like a lost cause... thoughts?

 

[farmkid]

Check out this thread. You may find some good ideas there. In that thread, there was a link to another site that had links to several bootable antivirus CD downloads.

Ah...here it is. Reposted for your convenience.

 

[Colin Xavier]

Since you have a working Ubuntu OS, you can try installing an antivirus software there, mount your windows drive and scan it from Linux.

One package you can try is Avast for Linux

 

[Danoz]

Since you have a working Ubuntu OS you can try installing an antivirus software there, mount your windows drive and scan it from Linux.

One package you try is Avast for Linux

...That is a GREAT idea. I didn't think of that--

Thanks for the advice

Daniel

 

[Colin Xavier]

Since you have a working Ubuntu OS you can try installing an antivirus software there, mount your windows drive and scan it from Linux.

One package you try is Avast for Linux

...That is a GREAT idea. I didn't think of that--

Thanks for the advice

Daniel

Your welcome

If Avast doesn't work (I swear by Avast) then there are several other Linux anti-virus programs you can try like Clam AntiVirus or F-Prot Antivirus

Let us know if any of these help.

 

[Danoz]

Since you have a working Ubuntu OS you can try installing an antivirus software there, mount your windows drive and scan it from Linux.

One package you try is Avast for Linux

...That is a GREAT idea. I didn't think of that--

Thanks for the advice

Daniel

Your welcome

If Avast doesn't work (I swear by Avast) then there are several other Linux anti-virus programs you can try like Clam AntiVirus or F-Prot Antivirus

Let us know if any of these help.

Tried a few different things, but I ultimately managed to run AVG in safe mode and killed the virus and cleaned out the registry. There's a slight concern of lingering malware but I think I got it (and I'm only reformatting this machine as a last resort).

thanks again--

Daniel