Without admin access to the PC you cant upgrade the antivirus. Chances are that half of those free virus checkers are themselves virus ridden anyway. Try using an ubuntu cd and booting it into the live operating system. This will run the ubuntu operating system from the cd instead of the hard drive and avoid the need to use the installed copy of Windows. You might not be able to save anything, but you might be able to get internet access and try out a few applications that Ubuntu has to offer.
Cheers, Mike On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:00 AM, fevrerippe96539 <[email protected]>wrote: > I've got 5 PCs that I'm trying to use to train disadvantaged young > people. The problem is they are riddled with viruses and a firewall > blocks me from updating them. The people in charge of maintaining the > PCs won't fix them or give me the admin password (Win XP) to let me > install a new or updated antivirus the centre is being shut down in a > few months. > > If they were working, I could still do a lot with them, so I've been > looking for a good online virus scan - but they all try to download a > little .exe onto your PC first, and the settings on the PCs won't > allow that. > > Suggestions? Solutions? Links? > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au >
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