I have actually tried this and it works. Boot up from your USB stick, work in it, save the work back to the pen drive, exit out. Oh, also all the linux flavors now provide live cd/dvd. Here is a very helpful article on how to get ubuntu onto a pen drive: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-ubuntu-710-gutsy-gibbon-install/ Collecting data […]

This article is an eye opener and it has pretty good overall information on how to know whether your system is infected or not. A must read. http://justanothercoverup.com/?p=608 I really doubt you will read the entire article, so here I copy/paste the last paragraph which also happens to be of more practical use to us. […]