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- matthewecornish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6There's also Hiren's BootCD (currently 7.9) http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hiren.thanki/bootcd.html which uses f-prot and mcafee anti-virus solutions... as well as a whole host of very useful facilities. I'd imagine most people who consider (and know) themselves to be a good person for others to rely on when things go pear shaped would have either Knoppix or most likely, Hiren's in their vitals collection.
- arcman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7One big problem, Knoppix can read NTFS and thus detect viral infections on a system, but it mounts the system as read only, so no matter how many viruses you detect you can't remove anything from NT/2K/XP, unless it's been partitioned as FAT32.
If you want to do a full fledged virus scan from bootable media, look in to the Ultimate Boot CD and the UBCD for Windows.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com
http://www.ubcd4win.com - maverick999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Very helpful article. Knoppix is akin to "duct tape" in the sys admin's toolbox...
- arcman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Only problem with Hirens is that it's mostly warez, so not only is there a potential legal licensing issue, but the only way to acquire it is through P2P or some remote illegal Russian server.
- Wootery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's accepted by many as the best live-distribution around, though.
Compared to an install of a good Linux distro, of course LiveBooted Knoppix is far slower, customizations lost when you reboot etc. But compared to most other live distributions it's pretty dam good. - johndi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That's pretty subtle, maybe you should just hit him over the head with a hammer.
- Jams, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I reccomend the use of Wininternals: http://www.winternals.com/
From Mark Russonovich at sysinternals.
I gather you can write to NTFS partitions with some Linux Live distros but it requires you to swap in a Windows XP CD. - Rosco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Alas, he has the DVD burner, I only have a CD burner.
- mxpxpx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i know this is not a help fourm, but it wont run on my SATA drive, but i have seen it run on other SATA drives, any suggestions?
- geeky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2PDF format
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/knoppixhks/chapter/hack78.pdf
and others...
Migrate to a new Hard Drive http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/knoppixhks/chapter/hack61.pdf
Create an Emergency Router http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/knoppixhks/chapter/hack40.pdf
Install Knoppix as a Single-Boot System http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/knoppixhks/chapter/hack33.pdf
Free Your CD to Make Knoppix Run Faster http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/knoppixhks/chapter/hack05.pdf - m4ff3w, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Maybe everyone that downloaded and ran the KGB Archive thing should do this now?
- jbestrom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2and why don't you just make one yourself? Don't bother your IT guy with something like this I'm sure he has porn to be looking at. If you know how to use this you must know how to make the cd eh eh? Hahaha
- DGSK387, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2speaking of Knoppix 5, it's already been released. I've been downloading the torrent for it for the past couple of days... it's taking forever though. very slow.
- edmicman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If you have a network of infected and hosed computers, screw cleaning them. Just reload your image, and start from scratch. And this time lock it down so they can't get infected. Jeesh.....
- matthewecornish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1True, though they're not free - which would turn some people away from using such products. I think the main slant here is being able to perform these tasks for free without resulting to piracy (and not everyone who wants, for some reason, to buy a Symantec product can afford it).
- swift, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think it can mount NTFS Read only but not RW with the live disk..
- Rosco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Nice, now if I can get my IT guy to finally crank me out that Knoppix DVD I asked him for.
*hint hint*
I know you're reading this. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have an older Knoppix CD, I might download a new ISO and check my computer for viruses just for the hell of it... Maybe I'll find somethign interesting.
- jbestrom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Nice but how about on a NTFS partition?
- coheedcollapse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1With knoppix 5.0 isn't it possible to read and write on NTFS? I've been using it for a while and it seems to work quite well, it automatically mounted and marked it as read/write on bootup!
- info, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2NTFS read/write capability is coming in Knoppix 5. If it works, this could be really useful.
- beatdigga, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Maybe everyone that downloaded and ran the KGB Archive thing should do this now?
LOL - mxpxpx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1we use that at work, although we use it for remote connection to our server and then scan using bitdefender online, works good, and wont infect the other computers
- konspence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As of version 4.7, Knoppix is on CD, that's still correct isn't it?
- thekurst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1LOL, Good One
- info, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Knoppix 5 has NTFS read/write.
- jknight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wait, Symantec is designed to clean viruses? I thought of it more like a virus "beacon" to attract them to your system.....
Weird. must read more........... - Mesach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They are like $40 now, i think you might even be able to get a cheap one with a box of tide if you look for the coupon.
- BuddhaLite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1From the article:
"While it is still advisable to have virus protection running on a Windows system at all times, virus protection can be expensive—not only due to the initial cost, but also to the annual subscription fees to get virus-definition updates. If you can't afford virus-protection software, you can at least scan your system periodically with Knoppix for free."
You can just stop reading there before going off to download AVG for free. - Jams, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In particular this: http://www.winternals.com/Products/AdministratorsPak/Default.aspx
ERD Commander is the name of the bootable software. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, you can scan NTFS just fine. They could allow you to write to NTFS using the windows driver, but of course Microsoft wouldn't allow them to put that in a live cd. You could add it yourself though.
- Rosco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@konspence
Yes, the 4.x versions of Knoppix are for CD's, the 5.0 version is for DVD's - InvisiBill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Agreed. All of the benefits listed in the article apply to BartPE as well, other than it being a different OS. As it's pretty much immune to getting infected itself (read-only/RAM disk), being a different OS may increase the difficulty of using it without any real benefit.
- ITDefPat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Knoppix is good for those otherwise comfortable with *nix; however, there are probably as many good reasons to use BART PE instead (win gui, win apps, etc.)
- UNL1M1T3D, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Very cool.
- mortem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Knoppix has become an indispensable tool indeed
- pred8tr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Who here has actually done this by following the article? I tried this a long time ago and I've yet to find a Knoppix distro that it works verbatim on... FYI.
- zuhalter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Won't work. Knoppix cannot write to NTFS.
- TheTankengine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Is this for Knoppix 4 only? Does it change with the release of 5?
- rude1979us, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I would recommend Bart's PE. It is the same basic concept, but it uses the familiar Windows XP interface (if you use the XPE add-on) and it allows the use of Windows Apps (read: Ad-aware, Spybot Search & Destroy, McAfee, Norton, Sophos, etc) and it is also FREE (if you have a Windows license already). Check it out: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
P.S. I have no affiliation with Bart's PE or any of it's contributors, I'm just a loyal fan and user. - rude1979us, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0If I dupe my own comment, is there a way to delete the second one?
- harmlessinc, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5Please stop spamming your website in the comments.
- avastyematey, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1holy *****. that is impressive
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2Knoppix is definitely a must have in anybody's cd folder. Has gotten me out of numerous binds in the last year. Thank you Knoppix team!
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http://www.shoutcentral.com - cliffzdude, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1AV products like Symantec are on bootable CDs, or come with a bootable CD for cleaning infected computers.
No Digg, old news... - diggnationdevon, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1Knoppix blows...
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