On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:02 PM, hindorffcanty96136 <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've got 5 PCs that I'm trying to use to train disadvantaged young > people. The problem is they are riddled with viruses and a firewall > blocks me from updating them. The people in charge of maintaining the > PCs won't fix them or give me the admin password (Win XP) to let me > install a new or updated antivirus the centre is being shut down in a > few months. > > If they were working, I could still do a lot with them, so I've been > looking for a good online virus scan - but they all try to download a > little .exe onto your PC first, and the settings on the PCs won't > allow that. > > Suggestions? Solutions? Links?
Have you considered just avoiding Windows entirely? If it's not one thing (viruses), it'll be another. In the long run, you may be better off just buying 5 el-cheapo USB flash drives*, sticking a compact Linux on them, and bypass the Windows on the hard drive, going from there with Mnemosyne/OpenOffice/whatever. In your case, Windows is only free if your time is worthless... * LiveCDs would also work, but then you couldn't update stuff like files unless you used one of the CD-RW-supporting liveCds and your computers have such drives. -- gwern --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
