I have a client whose sysprep created OEM WinXP Home OS installation does not permit me to use the recovery console expand command to replace system and driver files that have been altered on his system by the very malicious Backdoor.Tidserv trojan. And I don’t have a slip-streamed XP Home installation CD with the SP3 files in any case.
Is there any risk or downside to just going to the C:\WINDOWS\Driver Cache\i386\SP3 or driver archives on his hard drive and using Winzip to extract, rename and move the system files I need back to back to their original locations (after making sure that the date stamp and size of these files are the same as the original ones I need of course)?
I may be nuts, but this seems to be a much, much simpler and quicker method than using the recovery console to expand the files I need back to their original locations from the XP installation disc, presuming you even have a disc with the necessary SP3 versions of the system files.
Any thoughts you have about using the method above instead of the using the recovery console and the expand command would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
