Booting live to use as virus removal?

[Negative0ne33]

Hello folks,
   I have a windows machine that is desperate need of help. I was curious as to whether I could boot into backbox from usb and use it as a virus removal tool? If this is possible, will I need anything else?

[ZEROF]

Hi,

Yes you can use it for that. But if you are not advanced +- Linux user I don't see how you can do that. First you need to make bootable USB, for that try to use 32bit BackBox image (https://forum.backbox.org/howtos/build-bootable-(installation)-usb-with-dd/). Then boot and install some AV software like clamav to start (some other can be used Avast and i think Panda, Virus Scan as well, etc). Find partition (windows disk) you want to scan and that will be all. But like i said, if you are new in Linux i don't know if you will know how to make all this steps without issues.

You can check some online docks and videos as well.

[Negative0ne33]

Thank you for the prompt response. I already have a usb of the 64 bit. Im going to try that first..