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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 22/12/14 10:12, Tom wrote: > On 22/12/14 09:48, bad apple wrote: >> 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 tom >>> >> >> Windows 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. >> > Its not my machine - I will never be able to retrain these people > and they cant afford a new version. Tom te tom te tom > There are plenty of resources out there that can help new users of GNU / Linux based systems, most modern distros like mint are pretty straight forward anyway. Mint also has excellent documentation. They could join the mailing list and ask for help there, which is (as far as I am aware) partly why we exist in the first place. If they are near to Holsworthy perhaps they can come to meetings and ask for help If they NEED windows for a specific purpose then install in a VM, even if this is their XP version in a VM, if it is isolated from the net, and can run that program then there probably isn't really an issue. Is there even a specific windows only program they NEED to run. Paul - -- http://www.zleap.net @zleap14 @zleap14 diaspora : zleap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Documentation lead @ ToriOS http://www.torios.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlSYGYMACgkQaggq1k2FJq0okACgiGXYWcyEnM67KPooIN6C2juu Qi4An1os7epFiIHp3cwrkOs9dAm4Ouw2 =Adul -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq