I prefer installing a suspect drive as a slave or external on a known system. Tools, speed, and unknown hardware gone. Just don't run anything off the leper drive.
For a simple viral scan try a knoppix boot CD with f-prot. It's easy once you download the iso.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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