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tssk some people???

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  • 27-06-2004 10:58am
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    Tivoli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,008 ✭✭✭


    a mate asked me to look at his win2k pc becuase it wasn't booting-I am glad he did now...

    drive wasn't detected so i reseated the cables to the drive, and it booted up fine thought i would have a few beers and go to bed but..

    heres what i found on the pc

    1)win2k service pack 2 installed and no updates ever installed
    2)no firewall
    3)no antivirus
    4)over 400 virii (even the blaster virus was running away happily in the background)
    5)86 ad-ware exe and dll files ( treated me to nude popups while running windows update :)
    6)the C drive was 79% fragmented
    7)the hard drive partition with windows on it was 96% full with 2 gig of mp3's-20 gig drive with 8 gig system partition and the other 2 partitions ere empty (d + e=12 gig)

    and it also had
    8)a van helsin wallpaper

    it no wonder there are so many virii going around, he thought it was fine until a dodgy connection left it un-bootable

    anyway it now has
    win2k service pack 4 + all updates
    firewall
    antivirus + automatic updates + a scheduled weekly scan
    auto windows update set to install @8pm every day

    question- is there an auto updating ad remover that can run scheduled in the background?


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    KdjaCL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭KdjaCL


    The pro version of Adaware can do it.


    My record for spygits on someones elses pc is a whopping 264 with so many virus windows had this error "Msblaster cannot run as another virus is using the system please remove the other virus and reboot." :D




    kdjac


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    Tivoli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,008 ✭✭✭Tivoli


    great, thanks for the reply i'll try that tonight, i think i have the pro version on my windows fd DVD,


    I think that the pc will be totally idiot proof now, I will try to set it up so it automatically logs in as a user account, and then he can log off , and login as admin when he wants to install stuff, that should make it impossibal for virii and ad ware to write to the winnt and program files folder


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    gaui3d0pnbz86o
    Closed Accounts Posts: 738 ✭✭✭gaui3d0pnbz86o


    264 is pretty good, i once fixed a machine in work with 3500+ on it, not to mention over 600 types of virii, more amazingly after some f prot and adaware and windows updates it was fine!


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