Re: More along the lines of malware disinfection

Mike Moratz-Coppins <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.microsoft
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Express Web Systems, Inc. wrote:
> The problem with accessing the "Documents and Settings" folder is a tough
> one to crack, as I didn't have to deal with it in my instance (the files
> were located in a hidden directory in C:\Windows\). You might want to try
> liveCD that supports reading and writing to NTFS (if they are using NTFS, or
> if you are lucky, just access the drive via FAT32).

AFAIK most live CDs just grant read-only access to NTFS.  Which one 
would you recommend?

> As a different avenue of approach, maybe you can accomplish something with
> BartPE. That would allow you to boot into windows and run various apps
> independent of the compromised OS.

I haven't heard of that before, I'll read up about it.


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