[olug] OT: Computer Service

[Kelly Williams]

When I rebuild a windowz machine I use boot nuke on the hard drive to make
sure the hard drive is clean cause you never know were the viruses hide.

7zip is great on older computers even my old 486 that still works shocking
that it does.

Yes VLC plays DVDs that is what I use for my DVD player software for all of
my machines Windowz and linux.

Kelly Williams

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Awais Khan
<frontsidelockslide at gmail.com>wrote:

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