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Old Nov 21, 2013 | 1:22 am
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Originally Posted by Landing Gear
Thanks for this reference. As you can imagine, I canot run the scanner from that website since I cannot get online with the infected computer.

I did try their manual removal steps. Taking a deep breath, I opened REGEDIT but was unable to find either of the two things they referenced. Perhaps I am not doing it right.

The Level 2 McAfee guy sent me a couple of links to download some ziped files which and instructions for a BAT file. This should turn into a "deep scan" of the hard drive that you are supposed to run from the comman line over a few hours.

Q. Is there anybody outside the tech field, under the age of 40, who would have a bloody clue how to run a program from a thumb drive onto the root directory? Fortunately, I grew up on DOS so I can at least get this rolling.

McAfee, you suck!
I can't tell you exactly HOW to do it, as it's been a long time since I've had to, but I do believe you can grab various DOS distributions that will boot from USB that will at least get you access to the file system. The big trick is if you can enable boot from usb in the BIOS menu or if that's locked as well.

I wish I could say more right now, but I'm not in a position to research this. I suspect someone else may have had success if google fails?
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