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I personally have never had a problem with disinfecting people's PCs, but I always refer to it as "Ethnic Cleansing."
My first method of approach is to download the zip file f-prot (dos) from www.f-prot.com its free.
I prepare three floppies or a bootable CD.
If floppies format A:/ s to make it bootable. Unzip f-prot.zip and you get f-prot.com, English.tx0 sign.def, sign2.def and macro.def.
I stick f-prot.exe and english.tx0 on floppy#1 and the rest on floppies #2 & #3.
WRITE PROTECT ALL THREE!
Boot from floppy#1
A:/f-prot/disinfect/hard hard not C: etc.
The lights will whizz and you can ethbically cleanse boot sector virus.
Then A:/f-prot/loaddef
Booting again from flopppy #1
It asks you to feed it the other two floppies and then you get a DOS screen.
Use up/down arrow keys and Esc key to set your options.Use herustics, all files, compressed archives, I adopt a "Shoot to kill on the slightest suspicion policy."
When I give my talks on data recovery I always joke; "Better 10 dead innocent Brazilians than one live homicide bomber."
Yes its very bad taste, but I like to be known for that. My ex-boss at AWE Aldermaston once gave me the following reference "Mike is the only person that I know who can make a talk on killing millions..entertaining!" I have to live up to his reference.
DONT use delete, use rename. Then if it makes a mistake a Knoppix Linux boot CD can easily rename any file back.
It then should "ethnically cleanse" all macro and normal viruses.
This seems to work from DOS to XP.
Only once have I had a problem and then a quick e-mail to [email protected] and thy came up with the answer on how to exterminate the pest.
I once ethnically cleansed over 350 infected files from a PC, including Russian Flag boot sector virus.
Then buy at 25 euros fp-win from the same source, install it and run it and set it to check for updates hourly (but not on the hour!)
Download any of the many spyware programs scan and ethnically cleanse the PC.
FP-win is so good that it even finds my Linux hacking tools that I keep as compressed files on a fat32 partition, but it doesn't find my Windows hacking tools that I keep as tar.gz in an Ext3 partition on my multi boot "data Recovery PC."
So far I have done dozens of PCs for locals and have never had a problem except with DELL PCs with a recovery CD rather than a proper OEM installation version of XP.
I then have to resort to hacking tools to restore their legal copy of XP from a "slipstreamed" version.
I then use PM-8 to set a separate partition for programe files and saved work, often stick in a second HD, I get up to 10 gig ones free.[*] I then give them a copy of xxcopy(NOT Microsoft's xcopy!) set up a batch file, with a shortcut and use Karenwares "showstopper" in the batch file so that on every shutdown the saved work is backed up automatically.
It does delay the shutdown though.
I compile the batch file with bat2com.exe and make it a system file.
If there is room in the case, I put the second HD in a £14 disk caddy so that they can lock the HD up or take it home with them.
I also encourage them to back up to a DVD each week.
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I get the Hds from a recycling group. they use a wipe disk utility and quite often they cannot reformat the HD by normal, legal Microsoft approved tools.(what are they???)
I use NDD, various freeware utils, etc then Pm-8 or qparted and they are then perfectly usable and the older HDs last a good deal longer than the new 200+ gig ones, and as most of my customers have older Pcs 8 to 10 gig is adequate for backing up the saved work files; and are often free 4 me!
On my XP PCs I also create a windows swap file and each shutdown use a free secure-wipe in the batch file to "exterminate" any temporary files, and I use a ram drive for my PGP encryption and decryption.I run PGP from a USB keyring.
As many had never used anti-virus or a firewall or antispyware or root kit finder I install ZoneAlarm, VisualZone Report Utility and RootkitFinder, spamassasin and whatever free spyware killer I am playing with at the time.
Apart from fp-win, NDD and PM-8, all the software that I use for data recovery and repair are free.
I often install pgp to encrypt the back-ups from a USB keyring ( and give them a spare to keep in a safe place!)I make compiled batch files and shortcuts. enc, dec, sign etc so they don't encrypt the wrong files.
Really with modern often free s/w viruses and spyware should be no problem.
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