Bootable vuln CD for Windows

From: Alexandros Papadopoulos (apapadop@cmu.edu)
Date: 10/30/02 

From: Alexandros Papadopoulos <apapadop@cmu.edu>
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 15:06:03 -0500

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Dear all.

I'm looking for a way to scan existing Windows XP installations for
trojans, viruses etc. The closest match to my needs seems to be Nessus,
but I have the following reservation:

Since the client has to be installed on the running Windows system, it
shouldn't be too hard to fool by some pre-existing trojan. I was
therefore wondering, if you know any way of running such a
vulnerability scanner from a bootable CD, thus making sure that all
benchmarks start from a clean system and results can be trusted.

Thanks

- -A
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