Quote Originally Posted by RandomGoon
.... I could pop, swap and scan but I'd rather not break into 2 boxen when I could just nuke the borked up files ..... I mean I could do the whole back it up and reinstall but I would rather ......
It has been established over and over again that captive is just not safe. It often destroys the file system in a way that is apparent immidately, but it can also damage the file system in ways that seem to work at first and only take the file system out later after you have done even more work. So even if you could manage to delete the viruses with Knoppix and this technique (and I don't think you can), you would still have to do the whole backup and reinstall if you didn't want something worse happening soon. My advice is to bite the bullet and make a real fix, not try to rig a quick fix that will only get worse later.