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 Jun 8 2009, 07:19 AM
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UBCD4WIN, Acronis True Image Bootable CD, Paragon Partition manager, Puppy Linux (what is this used for?) Bootable CD, Malwarebyrtes, Spyware Dr, XP and Vista Operating system CD's, Active password changer, Autoruns. Any suggestions on good programs to use and what their used for would be very helpful. Thanks |
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Jun 9 2009, 02:52 AM
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QUOTE(cap2587 @ Jun 8 2009, 05:19 AM)  UBCD4WIN, Acronis True Image Bootable CD, Paragon Partition manager, Puppy Linux (what is this used for?) Bootable CD, Malwarebyrtes, Spyware Dr, XP and Vista Operating system CD's, Active password changer, Autoruns. All good. May I add SystemRescueCD? -------------------- |
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Jun 22 2009, 12:20 PM
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In all honesty this is almost an impossible question to answer - I have been doing this for over a decade - and I'll stumble on a new cool tool by accident when googling for some other things.
another thing I have been playing with is portableapps - there are a lot of useful tools that you can use that require NO footprint on the machine you are fixing - they have an antivirus scanner - which is sometime a godsend - (just make sure to keep it up to date with the virus defs.) I ran across this site too - with a few rescue CD ISO's for virus scanning - not sure how well they work - as how would the definitions get updated in an ISO - but definitely something to look at http://www.techmixer.com/free-bootable-ant...-download-list/ Good Luck with your business! ***EDIT*** find yourself a good undelete program - this is something that will prove invaluable. I used a program the other day to recover my mileage log called RECUVA and while it didn't "undelete" perfect Excel files, it looks like it may have recovered just enough fragments for me to put my spreadsheet back together This post has been edited by zarraza: Jun 22 2009, 02:39 PM
Reason for edit: Mod Edit - Removed Link To Password Breaker Per Rules
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Jul 17 2009, 10:47 PM
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You could also go to online sites that offer scans. Some are for viruses, other for malware. Trend Micro, McAffee and others that offer the online scans. Nothing to install - you just give the site permission to scan the system in question.
Also get Hiren's Boot CD. Aside from being able to boot a dead system, it has many tools. You can access the file structure the way you can with Linux - but this is with a pared down ver of XP. |
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