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Computer Virus- Live CD?

Posted on January 11, 2011 by admin| 6 Comments

I have a computer that has a virus/adware/spyware on it. The computer has Windows XP on it. The virus has basically infected the windows registry, so, because I am not an advanced user, I don’t know how to remove the virus in Windows.

Is there any live CD Linux distrobutrion that has a virus scanner that can update from the internet and fix the viruses?
I tried AVG, but it won’t let the user log in. I CAN use Windows, but the processes that start up won’t allow the virus/adware/spyware scanners to delete the problem. I have already tried Spybot S&D and Ad-aware. The viruses also apparently made Norton unusuable, for it will not start up. It says that I have to reinstall, but I don’t have any of the origional CDs, including the Norton and Windows.

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Need help with picblock?

Posted on August 29, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

Ok, I was caught while being on inapprobriate site. So parents put shit ass Picblock on my computer. Don’t have the pw and I’m limitted user. They even put pw on bios, so I can’t boot with linux live cd. But I really have to go on facebook, youtube etc. Is there anybody who can give advice how 2 circumvent this crappy software. It blocks all: pictures bad content on sites. I even can’t go on the homesite of horrible picblock. Believe me I tried all..

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Could I stop using the GRUB loader on linux? (For an experienced linux user)?

Posted on August 4, 2010 by admin| 2 Comments

I want to dual boot the full version of Linux, Fedora… with Windows 7 which is already installed, the problem is it comes with the GRUB loader, and that’s a problem because the last time I did that with Ubuntu, I was very unsatisfied with that installation of Ubuntu, and it was better from a live cd. I booted back into Windows and deleted the partition of Ubuntu, and didn’t touch the GRUB loader and the system crashed. I re-installed ubuntu but then windows didn’t work at all.

Now I wanna try Fedora and I tried it from a live USB (another install of ubuntu worked except flash player)… I wanna use Fedora but I don’t want to deal with all the GRUB krud again, the NT boot loader is better in my opinion…

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How to remove viruses from an inoperable OS (XP)?

Posted on July 29, 2010 by admin| 3 Comments

I’ve never run into this problem, but my sister supposedly has a virus on her XP box, and I’m really not sure how to help her. The bootloader works fine, but upon selecting a user, does not display any icons or any sort of interface. Pressing the power button seems to call up the ‘shut down’ display on xp.

What virus, if any, might this be? What are some possible solutions that don’t involve me manually backing up and reinstalling everything? (I can run a live linux cd and mount the HD)
NOTE: there is NO anti-virus installed on this machine.

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