On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:29:55 -0700, Andrew Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi to all. I understand that many of you, like me, are in the unenviable > position of having to support Windows boxes along with the Linux. I would > like to know what is in your "Windows just blew up" toolkits. This is an > ambiguous question, I know. I would like to have some competent AV and hard > drive recovery tools at least. Malware cleanup would be a plus. I am > becoming quite dissatisfied with some of the commercial software (Symantec, > for example) and want to give some other software a chance.
AV: I use ClamAV for corporate antivirus protection, and Grisoft AVG for personal/home machines. Drive Recovery Tools: You can do some drive recovery with Knoppix, but I spent $150 on Spinrite 6 for it's low level functionality. Malware cleanup: I use Spybot Search & Destroy, and turn on the Immunize & Tea Timer features. It does an okay job. If you can hide or uninstall traces of IE by replacing it with Firefox, even better. Email: Thunderbird. You'll only get away with this if the client doesn't rely on their email program for scheduling - the calendar plugin for Thunderbird has a long way to go, and it's not integrated very well. Productivity Software: OpenOffice.org works for this. Just make sure you set the program to default to the MS read/write formats in order to play nice with other people who don't have OpenOffice.org. Also install PDFCreator. The preceding programs are not all open source, but most of them are free. In the case of Grisoft AVG, I believe it outperforms McCaffee products based on recent experience. -- Lars -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
