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On 22/12/14 09:48, bad apple wrote:
Its not my machine - I will never be able to retrain these people and they cant afford a new version.On 22/12/14 09:32, Tom wrote:A friend has a little laptop running XP that appears to be infested. I thought I'd ask here before volunteering to help out. I see clam has a windows version - will that struggle through the malware or should I make a thumb drive with something on and boot from that. Its a long time since I've been near window and I hope i havent ruined xmas asking! Tom te tom te tomWindows XP? Are you kidding? Nuke it from orbit and install an actual operating system. You know, one still in official support from it's manufacturer. Why are you even asking such a stupid question? Don't mean to be mean. Just, seriously, what the hell are you even thinking? Why does anyone need to tell you something so jaw-droppingly obvious? Did you fail sysadmin 101 recently? Come on Tom. Get that piece of crap off the internet immediately. Ignore what the pig-ignorant moron user may or may not want and do what's right instead. At this point any XP machine is just a malware infested hacker jump-off point. Can they seriously not afford £50 for a grey market ebay Win8.1 license? PS: ClamAV is worse than useless, unless you enjoy finding only virii that are 10 years old. Combofix is what you want, sorting out that crappy XP laptop so it's not a general menace to society is what everyone else wants so get to it.
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