[pchelpers] Re: Very strange

John Durham wrote:
>
> If you are not confident of the results, this would be a good time to 
> consider the passive scan technique. If you can't remember how to do it, 
> please read below:
> 1) Disconnect the hard drive (power off).
> 2) Connect the drive as a secondary/slave to another system with 
> antivirus/spyware scanners. This renders any infection accessible  
> without any active nasties.
> 3) Use the master system (host machine) to scan the passive secondary drive.
> That should give it a good clean out (if the scanning program is any good).
> 4) When complete, repeat scan to ensure it is clean.
> 5) When finished, shut down and restore connections to their original 
> positions.
>
> After that, start up and test.
>
>   
Yes I do that.
But I only do it as a last resort.
I would have to carry the drive home and then back to work again.
I did that once a long time ago and when I fire up the scanning
computer it wanted to know if I wanted to format the new drive.
The drive no longer had anything on it. Not even my file recovery programs
could find anything.

So now I'm very careful about doing that. LOL

Pc


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