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Pat Lashley wrote: | --On Tuesday, September 14, 2004 20:59:43 -0400 "Eric W. Bates" | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | |> It's a small store. Folks with broken computers bring the |> machines in because "It doesn't work". They usually don't |> know what is wrong with any given machine; and they try to |> be careful (remove the hard drive and attempt to clean it |> first); but eventually there is a need to put the machine |> on line and try to update Norton's virus list. | | | Befoe bringing it on-line, why not mount the disk on a FreeBSD | machine and run ClamAV over all the files? It's not guaranteed | to catch everything; but it should at least reduce the window.
They do something similar. They mount it on a windows machine and run Norton.
The reality I'm trying to accommodate is that the staff will not always be knowledgeable, and even if they follow procedure there will always be a virus or spyware that gets thru. Clearly this problem could have easily been solved by simply unplugging the damaged machine from the wire.
| You could also consider setting it up so that the initial | reconnection is on a separate cable going through a firewall | that -only- allows the connections necessary to update the | Norton virus list. Once it is updated, unplug it from the | network, run the virus check, and only then plug it into | your main LAN.
That's a good idea.
| | -Pat
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