Re: FixMeStick

[Fred Cisin via cctalk]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2018, systems_glitch via cctalk wrote:

Scorched earth, it's the only way to be sure.
Never trusted a system after compromise, even vintage ones :P


On Classic machines, a low-level format of the hard drive, done on another 
machine, should be fine, or even after a clean floppy boot (but "clean 
floppy boot" seemed to go away with WIN95 - "Why am I getting hard drive 
activity before even getting the prompt?")


But, with over-writeable BIOS, I'm not so sure any more.


BTW, in lieu of SUBSCRIBING to FixMeStick, there are other ones available.
IFF you can follow instructions (an obvious obstacle for FixMeStick's 
target customers), you can download and create a wide variety of them. 
Some CD, some USB.
Even Microsoft has one!  "Windows Defender Offline" does all of the steps 
for you to create a 300MB BOOTABLE USB thumb drive for XP, Win7, 8, 
10, that goes straight to running its own copy of Microsoft "Security 
Essentials".


--
Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com

Re: FixMeStick

[systems_glitch via cctalk]

Scorched earth, it's the only way to be sure.

Never trusted a system after compromise, even vintage ones :P

Thanks,
Jonathan

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 5:57 AM Doug Jackson via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:

> I am working on a USB interface for my Sinclair ZX 80.
>
> The biggest problem im facing is how to buffer the 16GB through my 1kb of
> program RAM.   It's proving to be very slow.
>
> Just as soon as I can get that working I'm hoping to be able to read these
> devices.
>
>
> On Tue, 27 Nov. 2018, 4:57 pm ED MAJDEN via cctalk  wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello group:
> > Has anyone used a FixMeStick to fix computer issues like virus
> > problems and key tracking hacking?  Does it really fix such problems or
> > create new ones?
> > Thanx for any comments that are posted.
> > Ed
> >
> >
> >
>

Re: FixMeStick

[Doug Jackson via cctalk]

I am working on a USB interface for my Sinclair ZX 80.

The biggest problem im facing is how to buffer the 16GB through my 1kb of
program RAM.   It's proving to be very slow.

Just as soon as I can get that working I'm hoping to be able to read these
devices.


On Tue, 27 Nov. 2018, 4:57 pm ED MAJDEN via cctalk 
> Hello group:
> Has anyone used a FixMeStick to fix computer issues like virus
> problems and key tracking hacking?  Does it really fix such problems or
> create new ones?
> Thanx for any comments that are posted.
> Ed
>
>
>

Re: FixMeStick

[Chuck Guzis via cctalk]

On 11/26/18 9:57 PM, ED MAJDEN via cctalk wrote:
> 
> Hello group:
>   Has anyone used a FixMeStick to fix computer issues like virus problems 
> and key tracking hacking?  Does it really fix such problems or create new 
> ones?  
> Thanx for any comments that are posted.
> Ed

A friend loaned me one and it didn't do a thing--but then, I'm running
Linux.

--Chuck

Re: FixMeStick

[Fred Cisin via cctalk]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2018, ED MAJDEN via cctalk wrote:

Hello group:
	Has anyone used a FixMeStick to fix computer issues like virus 
problems and key tracking hacking?  Does it really fix such problems or 
create new ones?

Thanx for any comments that are posted.
Ed


I don't know any classic computers that it can run on.
So, you might get more useful answers from a group that uses modern 
computers.  Or you could Google it, and read some shill reviews.