On Sunday 29 May 2005 19:10, JoeHill wrote:
> On Sun, 29 May 2005 17:54:22 +0200
>
> Kaj Haulrich disseminated the following:
> > Funny ??? - It's dead serious and to the point.
>
> Okay, *ironic* is perhaps better. I just liked the way the author
> juxtaposed the usual 'is GNU/Linux a good choice for home users?'
> thing, slagging Windows instead.
>
> As to the infection thing, my id10t brother-in-law just bought a
> Dell (one o' them great package deals, you know with a 20 dollar
> PSU and prolly a celeron that'll burn out in a year), wants me to
> set it up for him. I told him under no circumstances would that
> machine be connected to the 'Net til it's got AVG loaded and is
> behind a *physical firewall*, and his kids are by no means to be
> allowed admin privs *ever*.
>
> I am *not* going over there every week (day?) to disinfect that
> hunk 'o crap.
I understand you very well. What a PITA. Funny thing is, that
after following Stephen's advice turning off all those "services"
the box seems to run a lot faster. And in the last 2-3 hours it
only got 1 trojan (backdoor something) and 1 spyware. That's about
one promille of it's previous state. I recommended him a "cleanup"
daily - wonder if that can be set up as a "cron job" ?
Kaj Haulrich.
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