On Saturday 29 March 2008, 19:53, Stroller wrote:
> One of my biggest bugbears against reinstalling is drivers. Dell &
> Sony are wonderful! You just enter the tag or model number on their
> website and the correct drivers are listed. Advent - and here, in the
> UK, other "brands" of computer whic
On Saturday 29 March 2008, Stroller wrote:
> Thanks! I'll look into PING. The documentation on PING's homepage
> seems a little scanty, but I'm sure a Google will be a bit more
> forthcoming.
It's very easy to use, I found a pdf somewhere that described it in few
pages.
> There are a couple
On 28 Mar 2008, at 16:43, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
Stroller wrote:
Be aware that sometimes Windows isn't cleanly fixable. Although I
try to avoid it until I've exhausted avenues for a clean repair,
sometimes the best thing to do is simply to back-up & reinstall.
Think this is a great write up
On 28 Mar 2008, at 19:13, Francesco Talamona wrote:
On Friday 28 March 2008, Stroller wrote:
I deal with h0sed Windows installations for my customers all the
time. I regularly boot a Knoppix CD and copy the whole C: drive to a
portable disk so that I have a complete backup. I find it
reassur
On Friday 28 March 2008, Stroller wrote:
> I deal with h0sed Windows installations for my customers all the
> time. I regularly boot a Knoppix CD and copy the whole C: drive to a
> portable disk so that I have a complete backup. I find it
> reassuring to use Linux for this purpose because I fee
On Friday 28 March 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
> IMHO, Linux and MAC are the next frontier for malware, and -SADLY-
> AntiMalware signature and heuristic techniques are one thing we can
> learn about from Windows :-(
True, but with one *huge* difference:
If something like ActiveX were to be unleash
Stroller wrote:
Be aware that sometimes Windows isn't cleanly fixable. Although I try to
avoid it until I've exhausted avenues for a clean repair, sometimes the
best thing to do is simply to back-up & reinstall.
Think this is a great write up.
The last paragraph seems most important - gi
Mick wrote:
On 28/03/2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anti-Virus on Linux. No.
(presuming that you don't run as root, and have lots of unprivileged
users for individual applications.)
Anti-Malware on Linux. Yes.
(Malware gets to the box via spoofed or hacked software distr
On 28/03/2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Florian Philipp wrote:
>
>
> >> FWIW, AntiVir, Bitdefender, and F-Prot run quite well on Linux, and each
> >> has BOTH Linux and Windows Trojan and virus signatures. So you can
> >> install these and scan your windows box, and then scan y
Florian Philipp wrote:
FWIW, AntiVir, Bitdefender, and F-Prot run quite well on Linux, and each
has BOTH Linux and Windows Trojan and virus signatures. So you can
install these and scan your windows box, and then scan your Linux
box/downloads for malware (e.g. openoffice files, media files, et
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Dale wrote:
Florian Philipp wrote:
This is getting OT but I still want to ask:
Is it really necessary to run an anti-virus on linux? I just want
to hear some opinions on that topic because I thought security
fixes for your software are the
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Dale wrote:
> Florian Philipp wrote:
> > This is getting OT but I still want to ask:
> > Is it really necessary to run an anti-virus on linux? I just want
> > to hear some opinions on that topic because I thought security
> > fixes for your software are the way to go for
Florian Philipp wrote:
This is getting OT but I still want to ask:
Is it really necessary to run an anti-virus on linux? I just want to
hear some opinions on that topic because I thought security fixes for
your software are the way to go for fighting virae on linux.
I have not ran a anti-vi
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:18:57 +0100
"Dirk Heinrichs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 27. März 2008 schrieb Florian Philipp:
>
> > Is it really necessary to run an anti-virus on linux? I just want
> > to hear some opinions on that topic because I thought security
> > fixes for your softw
Am Donnerstag, 27. März 2008 schrieb Florian Philipp:
> Is it really necessary to run an anti-virus on linux? I just want to
> hear some opinions on that topic because I thought security fixes for
> your software are the way to go for fighting virae on linux.
The main purpose is to remove virae f
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 22:13 -0400, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
> Mikie wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a product (hopefully free) that can clean a Windows
> > PC while booted on Gentoo?
> >
> > I guess I need a good malware tool that runs on Linux and cleans NTFS
> > volumes.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> FWIW, A
Mikie wrote:
Does anyone know of a product (hopefully free) that can clean a Windows
PC while booted on Gentoo?
I guess I need a good malware tool that runs on Linux and cleans NTFS
volumes.
Thanks.
FWIW, AntiVir, Bitdefender, and F-Prot run quite well on Linux, and each
has BOTH Linux and W
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