On 09/28/2011 02:14 PM, Aaron Burt wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:32:41AM -0700, Richard C. Steffens wrote: >> 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. > It wouldn't hurt to boot from a LiveCD and scan the machine beforehand. > http://www.livecdlist.com/purpose/windows-antivirus > The AVG one is pretty good, AFAIK.
Excellent idea. Thanks. I use AVG on the XP partition on my laptop and on my wife's XP desktop. > Make sure to budget a full day for the reload and patching, Recent experience suggests that the modifier "at least" may want to go before "full day." -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
