Say I find out a computer has been infected with malware, and I want to clean it as fast as possible without any information to be sent out over the internet. Most people just go ahead and run their antivirus in Windows, all while connected to the internet, which means while the scan is running anything could send out information. So is there a safer way of doing this?
I thought about kaspersky rescue disk, since in runs scans from linux, or is this only supposed to find malware that prevents startup?
Also thought of the idea to just disconnect from the internet while running a scan. While the scan run the same way as long as my definitions are up to date?
Thanks a ton for the help!