Have you ever had a PC so infected it would not boot? Perhaps this machine is so infected that scanning from within Windows, or even, Safe Mode will not succeed. We in IT have all tried various scanning utilities to get a PC to boot from outside of Windows. Well it seems that Microsoft is taking their AV tools a step further than their rather GOOD Security Essentials and giving us an easy solution.
I introduce you to System Sweeper Beta from Microsoft. This tool creates a bootable CD, DVD, or USB media that you can load into the machine. From there you can boot to this utility and do a malware scan while Windows lies dormant. Currently this tool is in Beta and comes in both a 32 bit and 64 bit flavor. System Sweeper is OS agnostic, but does have to match the OS architecture.
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