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Would doing System restore but not removing data files remove a Win32 virus?

Posted on July 29, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

Long story short, I have a Win32 virus on WinXP SP2, and disabled task manager, command prompt, and even AVG Antivirus Free Edition. So I’m going to do a system restore, but it has two options. Normal System Restore and the “Destructive Method”. Normal system restore I guess removes all programs and files and returns to factory default, however the Destructive method apparently removes all data files created as well.

So, question: Would a Win32 virus create any data files, and if so, does that mean I should do the destructive method, or will a normal system restore remove it? I’m worried because I’m not sure if there are actually any data files worth keeping, mostly because I’m not sure what a data file is.

Also, bonus question, you don’t have to answer, but: I’m dual booting XP and Ubuntu 9.10 and I have the live cd. So I know system restore will remove the Grub menu and replace the MBR, but I wanna know if it will also delete the linux partition. or will recovery simply recover the windows partition, leave the Ubuntu one intact, and all I’d have to do is insert the Live CD and restore the grub menu to access it?
D: Thanks so much, first answerer, but also, AVG says asyncmac.sys is infected, but it can’t remove the virus because asyncmac is white-listed. Will this be an issue with the antiviruses you recommended?

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Ubuntu live CD broke GRUB, now what?

Posted on July 28, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

Long story short, a flaw in my 9.04 live CD has caused a GRUB file to disappear. My Ubuntu live cd’s stopped working, Puppy Linux live CD can’t find GRUB in my computer, and a Fedora live CD can’t even boot. I’ve tried everything I can think of to fix it, but nothing’s worked. Any ideas?

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Accessing hard drives on a computer with a broken OS?

Posted on July 23, 2010 by admin| 6 Comments

Ok my computer crashed and I had to restart it, which resulted in some corrupted system files. I tried a few ways to repair the OS (windows XP SP3), but didn’t have much luck, so long story short, now I want to backup my files so I can do a clean installation.

I’ve already tried using a windows live and linux live ubuntu CD to access my hard drives, which where both successful except that I can’t see my user account files in the “documents and settings” folder, i.e. when I go to C:Documents and Settings, I can only see the “default user” and “all users” folders, and not my own user (user which holds folders like “my documents and settings”, “my pictures”, etc)

I need a way to access those files so I can create a backup, after all, most of my pics and videos and a bunch of other stuff which I treasure greatly are all there and I can’t access them =(

Can anyone help me? thnx
P.S.I didn’t forget to check the “show hidden files” option, so I know that’s not the problem lol.

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HELP ME!!! IN NEED OF INSTALLING PROGRAM ON LIVE CD!!?

Posted on July 19, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

OK, here’s the story.

I am a PC know-it-all and I know heaps about PC hardware and I know Windows like the back of my hand. But when it comes to talking Macintosh or Linux and all the rest I am completely useless.

So what I want to do is on our school computers (yes I am 15 and go to high school) get Ubuntu (8.10) running live from CD/DVD doesn’t matter and have VMware Workstation 6.5.0 for Linux installed onto the live so my friends and I can run Windows virtual machines and get past all the shitty restrictions their Windows installation have.

But I’m stuck…
I am so useless I cannot even work out how to install anything on Ubuntu. Can anyone PLEASE give me REALLY simple baby steps on how to make a live CD/DVD (I expect I will have to use DVD) that has VMware Workstation installed on it.

ALL help is appreciated.

Thankyou very much,
dglad4

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i can’t boot my hard drive with linux live cd?!?

Posted on July 7, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

long story short, i deleted all my windows files, and i was hoping that i can use linux live cd to boot my hard drive.

but the computer still tells me that some windows file is missing, so it can’t reboot.

so what should i do now? i can see all the files that are still on that hard drive as an external drive, but i can’t use that drive to boot the computer.

thanks.
yes, i burned it as iso, it was over 700 mb, to the cd’s full capacity.

when i set the computer to book from the cd, i see the sign “boot from cd”, then the computer will show something such as “missing file from windows/system32/ xxx.xx (file name)”

then when i press space bar, the whole thing starts all over again.

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