PCWorld - Answer Line: Cleaning Malware: Slave Drive or Bootable CD

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By Lincoln Spector
Aug 11, 2011

...you can better scan and clean an infected PC's hard drive by not booting from it. ...if it's better to boot from a Linux CD and run security software from that, or to remove the hard drive, and attach it as a secondary drive to another computer.

Booting the infected drive can be dangerous. Even if it's so isolated that it can infect no other machine, the malware on it may be able to control the boot and protect itself from your security software.

Therefore, it's best to boot from other media in order to clean the drive.

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