I was checking a computer out today that hadn't been plugged in for months.
On bootup, it ran checkdisk, citing the fact that several of the files had invalid date stamps & would be removed.
I checked the date & found it was 1600, but once I got into Windows, I put it on 2011.
I wonder if this would work for malware removal?
Guess Windows would remove those too, because of "invalid date" stamps...
Set the machine to 1600 or so in the bios, then boot up?
Just kidding!
Be careful, cause I got thinking... What if users out there were unaware of this problem & ended up losing all their important programs & files they created?
Check Disk gone wrong?
LOL!
Edit:
This gives me a crazy malware removal idea...
Many times, you can know about when a machine was infected...
Someone needs to come up with a utility to allow you to view & remove all files within a certain date range..
Ahem!
Haha!
CCleaner already has a flux capacitor built into it.
CCleaner already has a flux capacitor built into it.
Operated by Imperial Droids! Couldn't help the Star Wars reference.![:lol:]()
It's unlikely that resetting the date to an earlier time would aid removal malware as some virus/malware programs won't run if the date is out. (which is why some malware reset the date)
It's unlikely that resetting the date to an earlier time would aid removal malware as some virus/malware programs won't run if the date is out. (which is why some malware reset the date)
I am unsure what modern systems will revert to, but this was on an older P3 system, perhaps 800 MHZ.
I noted the fact that it stipulated there were numerous files that had invalid date stamps & went through a string of them to remove via checkdisk (before windows loaded).
I never would have thought that Windows would do that, but guess you live n learn!
I noted the fact that it stipulated there were numerous files that had invalid date stamps & went through a string of them to remove via checkdisk (before windows loaded).
I never would have thought that Windows would do that, but guess you live n learn!
That's why you also have to be very careful using any Linux-based tools on Windows, especially those that want to mount the hard disks since that can result into a very lengthy ChkDsk in modern Windows, and a lengthy ScanDisk in older Windows.