Topband: Spam on the Reflector!

Lloyd Berg N9LB lloydberg at charter.net
Wed Jun 19 17:04:16 EDT 2013


A very good FREE anti-virus product is Microsoft Security Essentials:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security-essentials-download

One option they offer is to download a boot thumb-drive or boot CD image 
with the anti-virus program built in.

Booting from something other than the system drive is particularly 
useful to remove "Root Kits".

When your PC is set to boot from removable / external drive ( USB Thumb 
Drive or CD/DVD ), and you insert the USB Thumb Drive or CD/DVD and 
reboot, the screen will be blank for a few minutes, the a monochrome 
Windows logo will be displayed, after a while you will get a report of 
what malicious software, if any, was found and what was done to remove 
it.

A bootable Microsoft Security Essentials USB drive is my #1 IT support 
tool!

73

Lloyd - N9LB  MCSE






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