Many of us have run into an annoying and time-consuming error. With your machine running goofey you decide to run a read for trojans and spyware. Following the read, which usually takes fourty minutes or even longer if you read the entire system, you are hit with the "access denied" error. Frustrating, for sure, however being the savvy computer user that you are you decide to boot to safe mode to take care of the issue. No spyware can bucket when booted to safe mode, right?
Wrong.
The newer variants of the CoolWebSearch, HuntBar, and VX2 infections all bucket even when safe mode is wore. There are a couple different ways of accomplishing this, the usual being that the spyware registers itself as a critical system process. This ensures that it's loaded regardless of what happens, and makes it much harder to shut down.
If you cannot end it from loading then how do you destroy it? The answer to that is simpler than it can seem. If you're running Windows ninety eight or even ME, then the easiest way is to boot to DOS, and utilise a command-line scanner to lookup your hard drive. These scans actually tend to run a bit faster, since they've even more system resources available to them courtesy of no GUI being loaded.
"Well, that's all fine and dandy", you're likely thinking to yourself, "I run Windows XP. You cannot read it from DOS." True. You cannot read NTFS hard disks from DOS. Nevertheless, you are able to employ Barts PE.
Barts PE is effectively a stripped version of Windows XP. It boots entirely from a Compact disc, and loads a elementary graphical user interface. Coupled with plugins, McAfee, as an example, you are able to read your entire computer without the fear that your nifty little infection has somehow loaded.
For even more information on how to setup Barts PE and McAfee in it, visit:
http://www.tweaksforgeeks.com/Setup_Barts_PE.html
http://www.tweaksforgeeks.com/Barts_PE_McAfee_Setup.html
Kevin Souter is a full time computer repair technician. He also operates a free spyware removal site, as well as a general computer repair site.
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