Malware leeching BW and running up bills ?

[Und3ertak3r]

Yes they will work from command line but it depends on how your hard drive is formatted to make the scans work from a bootable CD. NTFS is tricky since you have to load a read/write driver and then do a scan.

Dunno why NTFS should be a issue..
You Have the Window's Preinstalled Environment (Win-PE) Cd's aka Winbuilder and Bart PE .. these have no issues with NTFS.. have worked well for me for over 4 years.. and with tools for (remote) registry editing. not only do you get the malware files .. but you also get to hit the registry entries that say.. "If my files deleted..redownload from one of these sites"..

While not a Linux user for windows system recovery.. the various OS live CD's have been reporting excellent results with NTFS.. I have not worked with these because of the registry editing factor (If someone tells me there is a *nix Live OS app that supports Windows remote registry editing let me know)

Regarding Ciders Issue;
@Cider
What was the problem with the Phone account? was it Calls? or Data Usage?
If it's Calls.. then yes look for Diallers (Spybot SnD used to do an excellent job against them)
If its Data.. then you're looking for a SPAM worm (spyware is not so obvious on the BW usage.. noticable but not that obvious)

As for NTFS usage.. My impression is that All Vista Installs are NTFS.. BUT with XP.. some OEM's were still lumbering people with FAT32 partitions