Windows Files Flagged as Malware by Avira Rescue System Scan
Some antivirus companies provide "rescue system" software that you can
download for free and used to create bootable DVDs or
flash drives to
boot a PC outside of windows and scan the system for viruses and other
malware. The software can be used if a system won't boot because of the
malware.
Avira, a German
antivirus company, provides
Avira Rescue System antivirus software that can be used to scan a system
running a Microsoft Windows
operating system.
The
ISO file
that you download to create a bootable DVD or flash drive
contains the
Ubuntu
Linux operating system, but you don't need to be familiar with a
Linux operating
system to use the software.
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Determining the mount point for a USB flash drive on a Lubuntu system
I booted a PC from a USB
flash drive
on which I had installed
Lubuntu Linux.
I also plugged another flash drive into the system, but I didn't know
where it was mounted.
The hard
disk drive (HDD) in the system was /dev/sda and I assumed the
Lubuntu Linux bootable drive was /dev/sdb and the new drive would be
/dev/sdbc. You can type for devlink in /dev/disk/by-id/usb*;
do readlink -f ${devlink}; done at a
shell prompt, which you can obtain on a Lubuntu system by
clicking on the bird icon at the lower, left-hand corner of the
screen and selecting System Tools then Qterminal,
to see a list of the USB devices attached to a system.
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ for devlink in /dev/disk/by-id/usb*; do readlink -f ${devlink}; done
/dev/sdc
/dev/sdc1
/dev/sdb
/dev/sdb1
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$You can find the location where a USB drive is mounted by issuing
the mount
command and then
piping
the output into the
grep command to find information on just the particular drive in
which you are interested.
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ mount | grep sdc
/dev/sdc1 on /media/lubuntu/EMTEC C450 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,rela
time,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=is
o8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks2)
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$
In this case, I knew the USB flash drive was a 16GB Emtec device
and I was able to see it was mounted at /media/lubuntu/EMTEC
C450. I was then able to view the files and folders for
the drive from the shell prompt.
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ ls /media
cdrom lubuntu root
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ ls /media/lubuntu
'EMTEC C450'
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ ls /media/lubuntu/'EMTEC C450'
EMTEC.icns EMTEC.ico 'System Volume Information' autorun.inf
lubuntu@lubuntu:~$
References:
-
How do I figure out which /dev is a USB flash drive?
Date: September 16, 2008
superuser
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Creating a bootable USB flash drive from an ISO file using Rufus
If you have an
ISO
file that could be written to a CD or DVD to boot a system, but wish to
use it to create a bootable
USB
flash drive and
wish to do so using software on a Microsoft Windows system, you
can use
Rufus.
The developer is Pete Batard and his blog can be found at
Pete's Blog; the GitHub page for
the software is at
rufus.
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