| Most of the present day malware programs are | | | | other hand requires you to have access to another |
| technically sophisticated and are very hard to remove | | | | computer to connect the harddisk to, not to mention |
| with a traditional antivirus scan once your PC is | | | | having to physically move the hard disk from one PC |
| infected. They also commonly disable the Windows | | | | to the other. |
| task manager or Windows regedit. This leaves your | | | | The easiest and most effective way is to use a boot |
| computer data security at risk. | | | | CD with antimalware and antivirus software already |
| It also means that you are very limited in your ways to | | | | installed on the CD. When you are booting from the |
| remove malicious software from an infected PC while | | | | CD the Windows OS is not starting up. This in turn |
| it is running the Windows operating system. | | | | means that your malware is not starting up. Like in real |
| You could try to install an anti-malware program from | | | | life, it is very easy to get to your attacker when he or |
| a USB flash drive, but it is very likely that the malware | | | | she is asleep. |
| will interrupt the install process. Even if you could install | | | | Boot CDs are very effective, however there are only |
| the anti-spyware program, the spyware might prevent | | | | a few that allow you to update your virus definitions |
| you from accessing the internet to download the latest | | | | as everything is running from the computer's memory |
| anti-virus definition updates. | | | | or RAM. So the hard part is building or finding a copy |
| This leaves us with basically 3 options | | | | of a boot CD which is capable of accessing the |
| | | | internet in order to update the Antispyware program's |
| 1. Boot the computer into Safe Mode and try the same | | | | signature files. |
| procedure | | | | The alternative is burning a fresh boot CD every time |
| 2. Remove the hard disk and attach it to another PC | | | | you want to disinfect a PC. Some programs like |
| 3. Use a boot CD The problem with booting into Safe | | | | Kaspersky antivirus give you the extra option of |
| Mode is that some antispyware programs will not | | | | burning a boot CD. |
| install in Safe Mode. Removing the hard disk on the | | | | |