<html><head></head><body>Boot from live linux cd, copy mandatory files to new thumb drive, fdisk that hard drive and start over. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On November 5, 2021 1:33:39 PM EDT, Neal Rhodes via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Helping out a friend.<br><br>Win 10 computer shows signs of virus. 100% disk usage, but Task Manager <br>shows nothing eating up that much.<br><br>Resource Monitor shows many copies of OfficeClickToRun.exe. googleation <br>suggest this be virus. Which appears to make many copies of itself.<br><br>Thus it would appear that I should find a bootable anti-virus to scan <br>this computer.<br><br>Given I don't want to spend a major portion of my remaining life, <br>suggestions? I've used ClamAV in the past. I don't want to make <br>things worse by running a virus-scan which is itself a virus.<br><br>regards,<br><br>Neal<hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Computers amplify human error<br>Super computers are really cool</body></html>