On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 09:49:52PM -0700, JD wrote:
I came across an article that mentioned some viruses that can
hide and move around on a booted windows machine, and can evade virus
scanner.
That actually happens often with the nastiest critters. You commonly
simply don't boot from that machine to kill 'em--pull the drive(s) and
scan with either another Windows machine or a Linux box while the
critters are quiescent and can't defend themselves.
Cheers,
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Dave Ihnat
dihnat(a)dminet.com