kishorebhargava

Trinity to the rescue!

Today I visited a network which was thoroughly infested with virii, not knowing what do do with the virii, I decided to look at one of the special distros that can help in the clean-up operation. I had an older CD of “auditor” in my toolkit and was not too keen on using that since it I knew it was over a year old. In the virus world, anything older than a week is just not worth it.

A quick search, pointed me to Trinity Rescue Kit. This is a live CD that offers so many options at boot time, that it does get you to wonder! I can boot of CD, network or USB, I can then scan a system for virii, and then clean it out To top it off, the distro is capable of reading so many different files systems including NTFS that it really acts as a CPR disk for a windows machine.

The list of features is very impressive, and I’d suggest that you head across to the site and grab the ISO for yourself. its certainly a CD to have in your tool kit.

The live CD was able to update ClamAV to the latest version and scan a machine without any issues.

I am still playing around with the distro, but the initial reactions of using it have been extremely positive and the distro is “highly reccommended”.

While I’m back to sanitising the infested network, and you should go look at Trinity Recue Kit in the meantime.

Cheers…Kishore
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