Official Home of BootZilla

This is a new page, dedicated to disclosing things that I think would/could make the next patch better.

Since version 5.3.0 released, I’ve been working practically full time as a computer tech, and have found that BootZilla is inadequate for my use – Specifically, BZ needs an application that can read temperatures and fan speeds on all platforms (x86/x64). The addition of an anti-malware guide might also be a good idea to add.

This past week alone, I’ve seen about 10 computers with “Antivirus Live”, a rogue antivirus application that sets itself up as a proxy server, resets all the connection settings in IE to point to its proxy server, then, if you try to run any real antivirus tools to remove it, it disallows access to programs, and tells the user that the program they were trying to run is infected. It’s all smoke and mirrors, of course, but to the unsuspecting customer or tech, it’s a scary infection. – I’ve looked high and low for a decent guide on how to remove the infection, and aside from pulling a hard drive and scanning it with NOD32 in another machine, there’s little room to walk. ESET has a page filled with tools that I intend on adding to the next patch of BootZilla, since they’re designed for SPECIFIC infections – http://kb.eset.com/esetkb/index?page=content&id=SOLN2372&actp=search&viewlocale=en_US&searchid=1262200267422#1

I’m also looking into fixing the boot cd functionality. Yes, I realize it doesn’t work right, and I apologize for it. I’ll be working on a new Boot CD to replace the currently broken one (hard drive utils don’t work, the windows recovery console seems to be broken as well). This might be a good time to create  a minimal PE environment, too.

I’m investigating ways to keep BootZilla v5 up-to-date, and as current as possible. I’m planning on a minor patch adding the above changes within the next 2 weeks.

As BootZilla evolves, I do expect to move on towards a primarily WindowsPE-based approach, since most utils seem to require drivers to be installed, and for a system to be Clean in the first place. Trojans/spyware are getting more nasty, and require a different approach than BootZilla was designed for. It filled a niche for years, but as time passes by, it’s obviously time for an evolutionary change.

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February 19:

I’ve discovered a neat tool that seems to do exactly what it’s called – Remove Fake Antivirus. It’s packaged as an NSIS installer, which scans the system for infected files, and removes them. I haven’t taken a deep look into the app, but it appears to be clean, and only kills infections. The author of the tool appears to publish detailed instructions on how to manually remove some types of infections.

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