Jim said:
Maybe I can get to that tomorrow. I'm in grunt mode right now,
copying customer schematics into my system :-(
Jim Thompson
Jim, another approach is to use a couple spare drives. Format and
install the operating system on one spare drive, then use it to boot the
system with all three drives. Clone the original drive to the second
spare drive. Then you can try to replace damaged OS files on the second
spare without risking the original drive. Its worked for me to recover
data from badly infested computers that wouldn't boot. Even if the boot
drive ended up infected, it was a spare and could be reformatted when I
finished cleaning everything up.
I am in the process of salvaging files from a computer that
accumulated 1880 worms and thousands of items of spyware before it
finally wouldn't boot. The owner didn't believe they needed to worry
about spyware and virii protection. They were too lazy to download
decent free software, and now they have lost about half their files.
They were hit hard by the Netsky worms, of several types. That over
wrote almost every HTML file, and created hundreds of hidden blank
folders that would open when you looked at the directory they were
hiding in. It took seven passes before they were gone, then I had to
turn off the system restore feature to remove the last 467 copies that
were protected by the OS from being deleted. Why are people so stupid?
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Link to my "Computers for disabled Veterans" project website deleted
after threats were telephoned to my church.
Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida