Virus and Sony Z RAID SSDs.

I knew it was bad when my security essentials reported that the service had died. Then a fake virus protection program popped up. Now I can't boot into safe mode at all and when I boot up into normal mode the mahine is CPU'd at 100%. In any other laptop, I would rip the drive out and scan it on another machine. What to do with the RAID SSDs? I also have TruCrypt that adds a layer of complexity but I'll deal with that separately.

 

OK. Microsoft to the rescue. Microsoft has a USB bootable virus checker. Check. I replaced my dvd burner with a HD so I have to use an external burner. My external burner is busted. So I busted out my brand new Microsoft Xbox HD-DVD drive that's been sitting in the closet for years. Works like a champ. I'm decrypting my drive right now and then I'll boot up the Microsoft virus checker. I love you Microsoft!!!!!

 

you can also use boot disks like Ubuntu boot disk and Hiram's boot cd to do things like that

 

Yep, I use Hirens disk for that. Brings Truecrypt out of the box and a almost full-featured windows XP. Never had a virus on my Z but if I had one, this was the first disk I'd throw into the laptop.

 

Thanks for the tip about Hiren's. I tried it but many of the things that included are expired or don't run under that baby XP mode. They just say they don't support it. Kind of defeats the purpose of including it on that disk, I don't know why they did.

Ubuntu et al don't like the Z in Stamina mode. I tried bitdefender and Karparsky. They just boot up to a black screen. They do work under speed mode. I guess the kernels support nVidia well. Unfortunately at some point of this process my Z stopped being switchable between the two. Right now, neither the stamina or speed LED is lit. It's stuck in stamina mode.

MSE did it's thing and found a lot of viruses but the machine won't boot now. In the good old days you could reinstall windows yet preserve user data and the installed programs. Windows 7 only allows for it if you upgrade to a better version of Windows now. I could upgrade to Ultimate, I have a copy I haven't even opened in 2 years. But I think my system is so compromised I rather do a clean install. I was able to copy my user directory off under the recovery console. I think I'll just blast it now and reinstall from the Sony disks.