![]() ![]() Antivirus companies often make dedicated antivirus boot discs you can use to scan your system from outside Windows, but you can do this all from within Ubuntu. Even if you have bog-standard malware, it’s often easier to remove malware from outside Windows. Rootkits are a nasty type of malware that burrow deep into Windows and start at boot-up, pulling strings in the background so they’re invisible to antivirus programs and hidden even from the Windows Task Manager. (Worried about other people doing this to your Windows system? Set a BIOS password to ensure they can’t boot to removable media and mess around with it.) Scan for malware From there, you can open the Control Panel and reset other user account passwords. You can now log into Windows with the username Administrator and a blank password. ![]()
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