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MF
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 Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 11:56 pm Post subject: Re: How would you fix a badly infected PC? |
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The common sense, rational answer to the question. It's been my position
for years.
But. for many people, top-bottom-inline posting is a question of religion.
And, like all zealots, they defend their position with great passion,
profanity and frothing of the mouth. Revealing themselves, no matter how
much they know about computers, as run-of-the-mill dopes.
Mike
"smackedass" <kemanospamcomputer@verizon.net> wrote in message
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There are a few things that I've heard about newspost etiquette that I've
never been able to understand. One, the stigma against cross-posting. As
long as it's not a spam or a troll bait that's being cross-posted, who
cares if you send a message to 2 or more different groups at once? It
doesn't bother me...
And 2 is this thing about top vs. bottom posting. Neither top or bottom
posting much bother me. What does bother me, is if a person replies to a
post (especially a long post), and addresses several different parts of
the post, underneath the parts that they choose to address. This makes a
reader have to read and scrutinize the whole message, from top to bottom,
rather than just look at the pieces that have been responded to. Usually,
if I reply to different pieces of a post, I'll wipe out everything except
the pieces to which I'm responding, and add my own blurb underneath it.
Keeps it more readable, and the topic in focus, I think.
smackedass
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SBFan2000
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:49 am Post subject: Re: How would you fix a badly infected PC? |
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AMEN
"MF" <cheatsandlies@spammersbl0w.com> wrote in message
news:ROCdndDHM-SidtnYnZ2dnUVZ_uqdnZ2d@comcast.com...
| Quote: | The common sense, rational answer to the question. It's been my position
for years.
But. for many people, top-bottom-inline posting is a question of religion.
And, like all zealots, they defend their position with great passion,
profanity and frothing of the mouth. Revealing themselves, no matter how
much they know about computers, as run-of-the-mill dopes.
Mike
"smackedass" <kemanospamcomputer@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:mcs0h.18$B44.14@trndny07...
There are a few things that I've heard about newspost etiquette that
I've
never been able to understand. One, the stigma against cross-posting.
As
long as it's not a spam or a troll bait that's being cross-posted, who
cares if you send a message to 2 or more different groups at once? It
doesn't bother me...
And 2 is this thing about top vs. bottom posting. Neither top or bottom
posting much bother me. What does bother me, is if a person replies to
a
post (especially a long post), and addresses several different parts of
the post, underneath the parts that they choose to address. This makes
a
reader have to read and scrutinize the whole message, from top to
bottom,
rather than just look at the pieces that have been responded to.
Usually,
if I reply to different pieces of a post, I'll wipe out everything
except
the pieces to which I'm responding, and add my own blurb underneath it.
Keeps it more readable, and the topic in focus, I think.
smackedass
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Tony
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| Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 9:13 am Post subject: Re: How would you fix a badly infected PC? |
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If you want to start fresh, then I would wipe it clean. Use a program such as Driver Magician to
back up all drivers and save the directory to a cd or on a networked drive.
If the machine is a few years old, then you probably do not even need the drivers since most of them
will be included in the latest XP SP2. Boot using the XP CD and that's it.
Tony
On 26 Oct 2006 13:47:36 -0700, "walterbyrd" <walterbyrd@iname.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Please note: I am not asking about prevention.
Let's suppose somebody gives you a PC that is loaded with malware, and
it's your job to fix it.
What is the fastest, easiest, way to go about it?
Is there any way to clean the machine without loading any new software
on it?
Would it be best way to clean the machine without booting the machine
from the infected drive? For example should the hdd be removed, and
connected to another PC as a second drive? Or, should you boot from a
CD, then have a networked computer actually clean the drive? And what
software woud you use to clean the infected drive? Can the process be
automated?
Thanks, in advance. |
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