Removing viruses from another hard drive.

[Wally Wombat]

Hi
I have spent days and days trying to find an answer to the following.
I have run antivirus/malware programs for years on my machine and most of
the time keep it reasonably clean of bugs, so I know all about removing stuff
from a live, connected to the internet computer.
What I would like to know is, how does one remove viruses from a second
computer which has no internet, or an ineffective antivirus/malware.
Is it possible to slave the hard drive to an up to date computer and scan
from there without collecting all the bugs from the slave drive? Or does one
have to setup antivirus programs on the infected computer and update
manually.
However what happens if it is dead, and cannot start due to the infection.

I know this is probably basic stuff but any help would be appreciated.

Wombat
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Eats, roots and leaves.

 

[Juergen Nieveler]

Wally Wombat <WallyWombat@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> What I would like to know is, how does one remove viruses from a second
> computer which has no internet, or an ineffective antivirus/malware.
> Is it possible to slave the hard drive to an up to date computer and
> scan from there without collecting all the bugs from the slave drive?

Sure. You can either boot the machine from a CD that includes AV
software, or remove the HD and hook it up to another machine - just
make sure that Autorun is disabled, and don't actually execute anything
from that HD.

For convenience, there's adapters that allow you to connect an IDE
drive via USB.

Juergen Nieveler
--
A mistress is something between a mister and a mattress

 

[Aaron]

Wally Wombat wrote:
> Hi
> I have spent days and days trying to find an answer to the following.
> I have run antivirus/malware programs for years on my machine and most of
> the time keep it reasonably clean of bugs, so I know all about removing stuff
> from a live, connected to the internet computer.
> What I would like to know is, how does one remove viruses from a second
> computer which has no internet, or an ineffective antivirus/malware.
> Is it possible to slave the hard drive to an up to date computer and scan
> from there without collecting all the bugs from the slave drive? Or does one
> have to setup antivirus programs on the infected computer and update
> manually.
> However what happens if it is dead, and cannot start due to the infection.
>
> I know this is probably basic stuff but any help would be appreciated.
>
> Wombat

Clamwin antivirus, which is free, can be found here:
http://www.clamwin.com/
With downloadable definitions here:
http://www.clamwin.com/content/view/58/27/
If you have a removable drive and want to run and update from your
internet capable computer, then run it from the portable drive on the
no-internet computer, try Clamwin Portable:
http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/clamwin_portable

Spybot Search & Destroy, and downloadable updates, are here:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

Superantispyware is here:
http://www.superantispyware.com/index.html
With downloadable definitions here:
http://www.superantispyware.com/definitions.html

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That's what everybody calls me.