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[eth00]

I am trying to figure out a way to search a NTFS filesystem running windows XP for a system file. I do not care if it is some way you can do it via linux or windows, I am just trying to find the flag.

I am working for a large university IS department and we are often times tasked with removing spyware and other such things picked up from the internet. A lof of the spyware we are starting to see marks itself as a system file in windows or system32 directories. In the end I want to be able to search for the system files, list the system files, then delete the ones I want (probably all of them).

Thanks to anybody that can help me with this, after the searching part is done it will be easy to finish the rest.

[liquid]

if you did linux, you could just mount the drive and it wouldnt be a problem at all to go through all the core files.

[eth00]

But what would you use to sort the files automatically and pick out the system files? I want to do something automated, it takes forever to clean each system by searching though the windows and system32 folder.