[olug] OT: Computer Service

[Awais Khan]

Glary utilities. free , and seems to do the trick (not a virus thing, more a
registry sweeper)


not all that long ago, I came across a virus that was so deep rooted into
the system, that even when I did system restore, the virus was the first
thing to come back. nothing seem to get it out, so I had to reformat the
drive, repartition it, all that jazz.

7zip is a free zip utility. so if you want to throw that on their computer,
that saves them further hassle.

the one thing is that if they have a dvd drive or a cd writer, I don't know
of any free programs that do that. i guess VLC could play dvd's maybe, not
sure about that.

But I think you guys already know that ... my 2 cents adjusted for the weak
dollar



On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 1:49 AM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:

> openSUSE is my flavor of choice, and by default the installer will
> setup a dual-boot if Windows is already present.
>
> -- T. J.
>
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Daniel J Griffiths
> <ghost1227 at archlinux.us> wrote:
> > On 12/20/2009 11:10 PM, T. J. Brumfield wrote:
> >> It looks like Daniel already volunteered. However, push come to shove,
> >> I can as well if need be.
> >>
> >> I generally charge a flat rate of $50 to clear all spyware, viruses,
> >> infections, etc. and then secure the PC so hopefully they won't get
> >> any in the future. More often than not, I spend more time doing so
> >> than is really profitable to do so, but I enjoy helping people out.
> >> Surfing the web with an infected or unprotected PC is never good. If I
> >> know the person, I often use these very specific situations to
> >> recommend Linux. I generally offer to do a free Linux install, and ask
> >> the user to try it for a month. If they insist on going back to
> >> Windows, I'll format the PC and reinstall Windows.
> >>
> >> No one has ever demanded to go back to Windows.
> >>
> >> Also, as a general rule of thumb, I've actually gotten to recommending
> >> Microsoft Security Essentials to anyone with XP, Vista or 7 lately. It
> >> has a very small memory footprint, and a good detection engine. It is
> >> also completely free. Not too shabby.
> >>
> >> -- T. J.
> >>
> >> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Eric Penne<epenne at olug.org>  wrote:
> >>
> >>> My sister in law's PC is messed up. Windows Virus, yada, yada, yada.
> >>> She called me but I'm not going to touch it. She lives in Blair but
> >>> works in Omaha somewhere. Where should I tell her to take it to get
> >>> fixed?
> >>>
> >>> Later,
> >>> Eric Penne
> >>>
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> > I usually found it's better to do a dual boot, give them the choice.
> > They almost always end up deciding on the linux and asking to have M$
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