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cj_berlin Posted - 05/26/2010 : 12:41:11 PM
A Vista laptop (not mine; I am proud to never have owned a physical Vista machine ) hibernated with a virus running in memory. I can find and clean the infection using Linux-based antivirus but of course, as soon as I start up Windows the infection is back there. This is the state I received the machine in.

Is it safe to just delete the hiberfil.sys from Linux? Will Windows boot fresh then?

TIA
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cj_berlin Posted - 05/27/2010 : 07:22:40 AM
AVG + Avira on their own rescue CDs, then BitDefender + Kaspersky on Ubuntu.
chamezzzz Posted - 05/27/2010 : 07:20:09 AM
Yes, my mistake I didn't read the Linux part!
What Linux distro did you use? Was it on a USB Stick?
cj_berlin Posted - 05/27/2010 : 06:48:05 AM
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Originally posted by chamezzzz

Cool, glad it is fixed, would this have worked?


I think so but I didn't want to actually let Windows start.
chamezzzz Posted - 05/26/2010 : 7:27:33 PM
Cool, glad it is fixed, would this have worked?
cj_berlin Posted - 05/26/2010 : 1:45:16 PM
OK, went ahead and deleted it - everything seems to work. Now on to more scanning and cleaning...

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