Re: (Off Topic) Windoze spam and corruption

2008-02-11 Thread Christopher Chisholm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Win XP machine that is terribly infested (Ugh!) it takes for ever to boot. I have moused around to remove every bit of software that makes sense with the exception of dll files. I.E. I am trying to erase as much stuff as I can with out corrupting the

Re: (Off Topic) Windoze spam and corruption

2008-02-11 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 10:16 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: (I agree with Ben, but am adding a little commentary.) On Feb 11, 2008 8:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Win XP machine that is terribly infested (Ugh!) The only way to say for sure is to boot from trusted media and run your

Re: (Off Topic) Windoze spam and corruption

2008-02-11 Thread Ted Roche
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Win XP machine that is terribly infested (Ugh!) ... While my last and most effective option is to wipe drive and reinstall Windoze, I am having fun clicking around and deleting as much stuff as I can until I corrupt things beyond a capable boot... Besides

Re: (Off Topic) Windoze spam and corruption

2008-02-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Feb 11, 2008 8:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Win XP machine that is terribly infested (Ugh!) I'm guessing, like most Windows computers, the account used for day-to-day activities is a system privileged account (root in nix terms; Administrator in doze terms). If so, what you

Re: 2.6 kernel local-user root privilege hole

2008-02-11 Thread Alex Hewitt
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 08:11 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On Feb 10, 2008 9:36 PM, Dan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if 64 bit is immune. I don't understand the details of the code, but I see some hard-coded values and a lot of assembler. Many exploits depend on things like buffer

Re: (Off Topic) Windoze spam and corruption

2008-02-11 Thread Alex Hewitt
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 12:21 -0500, Lloyd Kvam wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 10:16 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: (I agree with Ben, but am adding a little commentary.) On Feb 11, 2008 8:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Win XP machine that is terribly infested (Ugh!) The only way to

Re: (Off Topic) Windoze spam and corruption

2008-02-11 Thread Drew Van Zandt
You can also just plug in the cable to the drive and leave the power connector plugged into the PC that it's running in. You plug the USB end of the cable into the PC that you want to do your scanning from. !!! DANGER WILL ROBINSON !!! Please try to make sure the two PC's are plugged in to

Old backup tape

2008-02-11 Thread Tech Writer
About a month ago, when I was cleaning out an old cabinet, I found an unopened Imation RT-1 400MB Mini Cartridge. I'm guessing this is for an old tape backup drive that I used to have but haven't used in years. Is this something that's worth even giving away (anyone want it?) or is it

Re: (Off Topic) Windoze spam and corruption

2008-02-11 Thread Bruce Dawson
To bring this back to Linux... 1. Disconnect from the network. 2. Remove all those files. You'll probably need to remove some .dll's too, but you'll need a MS-Window's expert to coach you through that. 3. Reboot. When reconnecting to the network, use WireShark (preferably on a

(Off Topic) Windoze spam and corruption

2008-02-11 Thread paul.cour1
I have a Win XP machine that is terribly infested (Ugh!) it takes for ever to boot. I have moused around to remove every bit of software that makes sense with the exception of dll files. I.E. I am trying to erase as much stuff as I can with out corrupting the Operating system. One Spyware that is

Re: 2.6 kernel local-user root privilege hole

2008-02-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Feb 10, 2008 9:36 PM, Dan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if 64 bit is immune. I don't understand the details of the code, but I see some hard-coded values and a lot of assembler. Many exploits depend on things like buffer sizes and offsets, so switching to a different word size

Re: (Off Topic) Windoze spam and corruption

2008-02-11 Thread Thomas Charron
On Feb 11, 2008 8:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Win XP machine that is terribly infested (Ugh!) it takes for ever to boot. I have moused around to remove every bit of software that makes sense with the exception of dll files. I.E. I am trying to erase as much stuff as I can with

Re: (Off Topic) Windoze spam and corruption

2008-02-11 Thread Bill Sconce
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:50:33 -0500 Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One item I've found very useful for this is a small cable/USB interface you can buy that let's you easily slave the hard drive from a PC and perform your scans from a known good system. Here are pointers to one of these