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RE: Daughter's computer
From: Blanchard_Michael () emc com
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 10:54:21 -0400
Here's another of my 2-cents thrown in. McAfee's CleanBoot CD is certainly a great way to go. Boot up off of that CD, and clean the system. Bingo, done and dusted. :-) Update the DATs before creating the CleanBoot ISO, then burn to CD and boot-a-toot-toot from the CD :-) Michael P. Blanchard Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE Office of Information Security & Risk Management EMC ² Corporation 4400 Computer Dr. Westboro, MA 01580 -----Original Message----- From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Dan Renner Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 10:29 PM To: funsec () linuxbox org Subject: Re: [funsec] Daughter's computer funsec-request () linuxbox org wrote:
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:08:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Rosowski <rosowskij () ie ymp gov> Subject: Re: [funsec] Daughter's computer To: funsec () linuxbox org Message-ID: <20060427100255.A55132 () infeng ymp gov> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowedIn my experince of a driveby, cleaners didn't and I had to reinstall. And Microsoft says the same. I rather like the idea of following the Microsoft recommendation and reinstall Windows, even though in this case, it means I'll be installing Linux (if I can talk her into it).If she's just using office applications, web browsing, and IM. It's a viable solution. You might start her out with one of the many live CD distributions, which will save you some time, and let her find something she likes. My boss's wife swears by damn small linux, but there are a lot of choices out there. In any case you want to as a minumum if you go with windows or linux, get her using Firefox. Also once you have the machine setup, it'd be a good idea to create an image of it, so if it gets corrupted again, you have a quick way to go back to a known point.
I offer a couple of tips: 1) In the efforts of a cleanup - DON'T cleanup such systems by booting up from the infrected system. Pull the drive and attach to a clean machine running a known GOOD AV and anti-spy/adware proggies and scan from that first - THEN return drive and re-scan. (I highly suggest NOT using Norton or McAfee as they both use IE code, thus are themselves vulnerable.) 2) In the areas of a Linux Live CD, the following are known to be very good for end users: Ubuntu/Kubuntu - http://ubuntu.com (very good) Kanotix - http://kanotix.org (very good, tightly based on Knopppix - scroll down, on left 'choose language') Mepis - http://mepis.org (very good for desktop use, but a bit proprietary) Linspire - http://linspire.com (very easy for newbies - coming out with a free version soon at http://freespire.org) ---------------------------------- Sincerely, Dan Renner President Los Angeles Computerhelp http://losangelescomputerhelp.com 818.352.8700 _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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