Thanks to all,
This turned out to be a very off-topic thread, dispite my hopes for a
Linux solution.
I think I finally killed the windows malware with CWShredder from
Trend Micro. Note that it is a single purpose malware killer and only
targets variants of CWS (Cool Web Search).
Things that failed to kill it include:
Ad-Aware, Spybot Search and Destroy, X-Cleaner, Gargoyle,
TrojanHunter, HijackThis.
And Spyware Doctor would not even run on the infected machine.
Thanks again
Greg
On 8/9/05, Robert A. Rawlinson
Ken Schneider wrote:
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 16:14 +0200, Clayton wrote:
Greg Freemyer wrote:
One of my co-workers has a Win2K box that has some kind of malware on it. I have run 3 windows malware detectors on it and none of them find it. A fourth simply causes the machine to be unacceptably slow.
I have loaded a SuSE 9.3 dual boot config on it. Is there a SuSE 9.3 tool for searching thru his C: drive for windows malware?
If not, is there something I can download and attempt fixing his machine with?
Greg
What are the Windows utils you've tried? Have you tried: AdAware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Crapcleaner http://www.ccleaner.com/
Spybot http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
and maybe a decent antivirus util like: http://www.avast.com/
Of course you could always just convince him to use SuSE :-) No more probs with spyware, malware, adware etc.
C.
You might want to take a look at http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ and see if anything there might help. It does have many tools.
Be sure to check for failed cpu fans. I have had it happen several times that the cpu fan fails and the cpu protects itself from heat failure by halting until it cools enought to resume. This only takes a few milliseconds and the effect is that the system seems to run very slooow! Bob
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