Computer Attacked

Per Bill in Co:
I'd rather keep it all on the same partition, and just image or restore the
whole enchilada - which still only takes me about 15 minutes. Why keep
data on a separate partition?

Because, when you re-image, the data gets replaced with old data
from the time when the image was taken.

My Rationale: I don't want to image every day - only occasionally
when I am pretty much sure the system is clean. If I image
every day, I could be backing up an infected or
otherwise-compromised system.
--
Pete Cresswell

On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 13:15:11 -0700 (PDT), Searcher7
wrote:

Thye problem with using a pc at the New York Public Library is that so
many basic functions of the OS that you take for granted are turned
off on these PCs. If I download an app I can't be sure I really have
it until I get home. I can't even copy the text in this thread and put
it on my flash drive. (Or edit text already on my flash drive).

I know how you feel. When we are visiting her folks I have to use
public computers. To add to the hassle everything's in bird tracks.

On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 18:45:08 -0400, "glee"
wrote:

finds. Reboot if prompted, then run a full scan with your anti-virus.
I would run a scan from a bootable rescue disc like Kaspersky Rescue CD
from outside Windows, as a last step, if it were here.

How would he burn it?

Loren Pechtel wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 18:45:08 -0400, "glee"
wrote:

finds. Reboot if prompted, then run a full scan with your anti-virus.
I would run a scan from a bootable rescue disc like Kaspersky Rescue CD
from outside Windows, as a last step, if it were here.

How would he burn it?

At the library.

The staff at the library are very helpful.

Paul

In article , Paul wrote:
Loren Pechtel wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 18:45:08 -0400, "glee"
wrote:

finds. Reboot if prompted, then run a full scan with your anti-virus.
I would run a scan from a bootable rescue disc like Kaspersky Rescue CD
from outside Windows, as a last step, if it were here.

How would he burn it?

At the library.

The staff at the library are very helpful.

Paul
The staff at the library are usually VERY old and wouldnt have a clue as to
how to burn a CD

GMAN wrote:
In article , Paul wrote:
Loren Pechtel wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 18:45:08 -0400, "glee"
wrote:

finds. Reboot if prompted, then run a full scan with your anti-virus.
I would run a scan from a bootable rescue disc like Kaspersky Rescue CD
from outside Windows, as a last step, if it were here.

How would he burn it?
At the library.

The staff at the library are very helpful.

Paul

The staff at the library are usually VERY old and wouldnt have a clue as to
how to burn a CD

The staff at my library, spend most of their time doing the
"computer help person routine". I don't think they do much with
books any more. They fill the printer with paper for patrons,
collect the $0.05 per printed page, and answer computer questions.
At the main library, there's a queue for computers, and a room with
30 seats or so in it. So it hardly seems like a library any more.
More like an Internet Cafe, in a library setting.

I even thought the machines would be crusty Pentium 100's, but
a quick check showed the one I used, had a Core2.

Paul

"Loren Pechtel" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 18:45:08 -0400, "glee"
wrote:

finds. Reboot if prompted, then run a full scan with your anti-virus.
I would run a scan from a bootable rescue disc like Kaspersky Rescue
CD
from outside Windows, as a last step, if it were here.

How would he burn it?

On the library computer he is posting from, at friend's computer, even
ask someone in an Internet cafe to do a favor and burn it. There's
always a way, unless you're too busy looking for ways to fail.
--
Glen Ventura
MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
CompTIA A+

"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
...
From: "J. P. Gilliver (John)"

In message , David H.
Lipman writes:
[]
LOL - YOU will be the object of Identity Theft. Prevention is better
then cure and restoring an image or reinstalling the OS is reactive and
not proactive and leaves you vulnerable to data and monetary theft where
restoring an image or reinstalling the OS will NOT help.

Nor does the above post.

???



--
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

After casting my eye through this thread, and earlier in it, I was wondering
if the OP had a FULL version of AVG with real-time scanner running, or just
the free AV scanner, which I thought does not include the TSR real-time
scanner ?

....anyhoo http://www.prevx.com/blog/163/Ransom...n-the-MBR.html is
interesting,

regards, Richard

Per Bill in Co:
Why keep
data on a separate partition?

Another reason: to minimize the size of the System partition.

Smaller partition, faster images/restores.
--
Pete Cresswell

Per Flasherly:
And where are you guys getting off on 20 minutes ... I
start getting hot under the collar when a C: restore imaging routine
takes longer than 2 minutes!

I was trying tb conservative.

But 2 minutes? That's really impressive.

Takes me 2 minutes just to fish out the restore CD and boot from
it.
--
Pete Cresswell

(PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per Bill in Co:
Why keep
data on a separate partition?

Another reason: to minimize the size of the System partition.

Smaller partition, faster images/restores.
--
Pete Cresswell

Yes, I know. :-) But for me, backing up everything together has worked
well, as I don't have to keep tracl of *separate* backups. But I do it
pretty often.

I should mention one exception - I do keep a separate (and even more up to
date copy) of my OE email on another partition just in case. I even have a
desktop icon dedicated to just that purpose. :-)

"RJK" wrote in message
...
snip
After casting my eye through this thread, and earlier in it, I was
wondering if the OP had a FULL version of AVG with real-time scanner
running, or just the free AV scanner, which I thought does not include
the TSR real-time scanner ?

AVG's free AV has always included a real-time resident scanner.

...anyhoo
http://www.prevx.com/blog/163/Ransom...n-the-MBR.html is
interesting,

Thanks for the link.
--
Glen Ventura
MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
CompTIA A+

On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:23:13 -0400, Paul wrote:

Loren Pechtel wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 18:45:08 -0400, "glee"
wrote:

finds. Reboot if prompted, then run a full scan with your anti-virus.
I would run a scan from a bootable rescue disc like Kaspersky Rescue CD
from outside Windows, as a last step, if it were here.

How would he burn it?

At the library.

The staff at the library are very helpful.

Paul

Libraries are set up to let you burn? I didn't realize you had that
much control of the system.

On Jul 10, 9:54 am, "(PeteCresswell)" wrote:
Per Flasherly:

And where are you guys getting off on 20 minutes ... I
start getting hot under the collar when a C: restore imaging routine
takes longer than 2 minutes!

I was trying tb conservative.

But 2 minutes? That's really impressive.

Takes me 2 minutes just to fish out the restore CD and boot from
it.

If the DVD/CD's in: 1) 15-2-m/sec, 2) a quad-channel, Class 10 USB
flash stick for 30m/sec, 3) HDHD 50m/sec when excellent rates
between disparate physical drives or same-platter partitions.

The restoration image is 6-800meg if only C:\Windows and there's a
little selectivity about programs that take themselves and their
residuals somewhere else. After doing it for years, life, I guess,
becomes more bitchy when it's less impressive than redundant and taken
for granted, i.e., never owned a SSDrive, so somebody else can do the
damn math for factoring seconds on that.

Per Flasherly:
If the DVD/CD's in: 1) 15-2-m/sec, 2) a quad-channel, Class 10 USB
flash stick for 30m/sec, 3) HDHD 50m/sec when excellent rates
between disparate physical drives or same-platter partitions.

As one who re-images as soon as I even *think* the system might
be getting goofy, I've got to get this working for myself.

Is the bottom line that you have a really-fast USB stick set up
to boot the restore environment - plus a faster-than-usual DVD
drive?
--
Pete Cresswell