On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 15:20, Charlie Mahan wrote: > Personal experience as of 42 minutes 38 seconds ago. Virgin install of XP on a > virgin drive, new system. The new owner picked it up from me this afternoon, > took it home and decided to get the installation out of the way before dinner > so that he wouldn't have to use his wife and kids system. > > I just home got from an unscheduled trip there to reinstall Windows and > install the utilities I _told the dork_ to download on the family system, > burn to disk, and install *before allowing XP onto the net. > > 2 worms, 1 trojan in 1 minute 45 seconds. By his count. By the time I got > there he had wiped the drive, burned the utilities (I always recommend AVG > too Joe) but his confidence was so shaken he wouldn't touch the system until > I was there to lead him through. > > The only good that came out of the service call (other than the assault I > performed on his wallet) is that the new 120 GB drive is now set for dual > boot Mandrake 10.0 and his wife was in familiar territory happily chatting > with friends using kopete when I left. So much for his Windows only box. <g> > > Charlie
As is my standard for doing an XP setup, the actual setup files reside on this MDK box, the i386 dir is copied to the target machine (or Ghost image - whichever is suited); boot with a bootable Win98 style CD, disconnect from network, start XP installation. Upon completion of base installation, turn off necessary services, apply latest patches + SP1 from another CD, reboot. Install RegistryMechanic, Spybot Search & Destroy, then Firefox, Thunderbird, reset system defaults, then AVG, HijackThis and About::Blank. ZoneAlarm after that. Reboot. Connect machine to network again, update AVG and allow ZA to let it through. Then start installing other apps like WinAmp, WinMX, GAIM for Windows, and a few extensions for Firefox. Defrag, reboot, scan system and registry. Sounds like an awful lot of work, but I have the procedure fairly down pat and at least it keeps the machine secure from the get-go...and it is a dent in the client pocket, but they generally stay quite stable for a fair amount of time. -- stephen kuhn - proprietor __________________________________________________________________ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __________________________________________________________________ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __________________________________________________________________ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. "Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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