BleepingComputer.com: Formating/OS reinstall after malware disabled peripherals and/or USB ports

As I can use the Symantec Restore utility for the DELL I am working with now, I can re-enable the perhipherals and use bootable Erase etc. discs to be completely safe after. However, I was wondering if there is a discussion strand (did not find one searching?) or a tutorial or a web guide what to do if your rootkit infection goes so deep that the peripherals you'd use for your boot disks have been disabled? Thanks much as always for any feedback.

We have a tool called Flash Drive Disinfector for USB devices
Make sure the devices are plugged in when you run it
http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/sUBs/...Disinfector.exe
This is a direct link
One item of note:
As part of its routine, Flash_Disinfector will create a hidden folder named autorun.inf in each partition and every USB drive that was plugged in when you run it. Do not delete this folder...it will help protect your drives from future infection by keeping the autorun file from being installed on the root drive and running other malicious files.

Some A-V programs will flag this as a virus but it's a false positive
It's a folder not the file that can be an infection

This post has been edited by garmanma: 17 February 2009 - 07:49 PM

Very cool. Just to make sure i use this correctly, so proactively, I insert all UBS devices I would use later for autoboots, run your program, and all devices that were so inserted will later be recognized and operate as usual should some malware attempt to completely disable a USB port, correct?

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This post has been edited by gnometorule: 18 February 2009 - 10:05 AM