Microsoft SystemSweeper

[iisjman07]

This is a tool that allows you to perform offline malware scans. Sorry for the short post, I'm typing on my phone. Haven't tested yet but looks promising.

Microsoft has published a beta of its Standalone System Sweeper software, a bootable recovery tool that can be used to identify and remove rootkits, as well as other advanced malware. The bootable anti-virus solution uses the same AV engine as Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) and supports both 32- and 64-bit installations of Windows.

Link: http://connect.microsoft.com/systemsweeper

 

[TLE]

I wonder if these are very simliar to the stand alone scanner available on the ERD commander discs. Will have to download them and give them go. Nice find though!!

 

[iisjman07]

I believe the erd disks were designed before mse, and thus only used the pretty poor windows defender engine. These should be much better in theory

 

[TLE]

Looks like you can use USB drives as well as CD's

 

[Xander]

http://www.technibble.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27741

Tried it a couple of days ago. Made a USB but it gave a boot error when it started up.

 

[Painless]

I tried it a couple of days ago but I got an error as soon as I started a scan.

I tried 2 different copies ( downloaded to different machines, otherwise it just updates the earlier version.) I used both the CD and the USB versions but no success. The error instructed me to update the application but despite doing this there was no improvement.

For the moment I will stick to my existing live CDs and not waste any more time.

John