A friend has asked me to help with cleaning off an older computer of theirs. Over the years their son downloaded lots of stuff without knowing too much about the safety of each site he visited.
The machine is some flavor of Windows -- might be Win98 or XP. They have some data they want to keep. My thought is to network their machine to my laptop and copy those files. Then, I could reload Windows for them. (I don't think I could talk them into Linux.) My wife is concerned about contaminating my laptop with viruses. I told her that Windows viruses don't affect Linux, but she isn't convinced. She asked me to ask all of you, and that she'll go along with your recommendations. Any thoughts? -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
