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Your friend could install Avast I have been getting alerts that says
it is free for businesses. <br>
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<div>Tell your friend to download a decent Windows anti-virus.
I recommend NOD32 from Eset. It has a trial. Run a scan, if
it comes up clean your friend can have peace of mind, if it
doesn't come up clean there is a good chance that NOD will be
able to get rid of the crap anyway.<br>
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You friend should obviously encourage the employer to spend a
few bucks on anti viurs. <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Clug <span
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getting more into philosophy and ethics than Linux, but I'm
always up for a discussion.<br>
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Yes, in in ideal world we'd all do what's right. I will also
not that I /did/ specify this is "guerilla support" so I am
obviously aware of this not being an ideal situation.<br>
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In an ideal world, the EMPLOYER would have done the right
thing in the first place - that is, they would have had an
anti-virus/anti-malware tool installed. I should point out
this is a fairly small operation and there is only ONE
computer there (which made ME feel a lot better) - this is
the machine used by my friend.<br>
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This is also the machine that the employer expects my friend
- a very, very non-technical person - to be 100% responsible
for. My friend is skilled with MS Office, but they are
expected to do everything from install software to debugging
printer failures. My friend has to run backups onto their
own PERSONAL DRIVES because if any data gets lost or
corrupetd THEY ARE THE ONE BLAMED.<br>
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A printer failure is what caused this mess in the first
place. My friend tells the boss the (6+ year old inkjet)
printer is broken and that they need to get a new one and/or
pay someone to come look at it. Boss says no, and my friend
still gets in trouble for not printing stuff out. So my
friend who is, again, very non-technical, finds what they
THINK is an HP support site and runs the diagnostic utility
they are told will let HP access the computer... etc, etc.<br>
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And yes, in an ideal world my friend could also quit the
hell out of that job and get a better one, but...
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On Thu, 21 May 2015, Ryan Ware wrote:<br>
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The right thing to do would be to tell the employer so
they can fix the<br>
machine properly and be aware that they may have a
malware infested machine<br>
that may be doing bad things on their network and to
other machines. To do<br>
otherwise is irresponsible. The employer may be much
more dissatisfied with<br>
the employee if things drag on and the problem
migrates to other computers<br>
in the organization.<br>
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On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 10:20 PM, Doug Reed <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:n0nas@amsat.org"
target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:n0nas@amsat.org">n0nas@amsat.org</a></a>> wrote:<br>
I have nothing useful to add regarding a Linux
boot disk image<br>
to run<br>
malware tools on a Windows box. I always
question how recent the<br>
tools<br>
are and how well they are geared to finding
problems on Windows<br>
rather<br>
than Linux.<br>
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I think you already gave the best suggestion,
install portable<br>
versions of as many Windows AV tools as you can
find on a USB<br>
stick.<br>
As Marc said, plan to use multiple tools and run
each one at<br>
least one<br>
more time after it finds no errors, rebooting
between each<br>
test.....<br>
My old routine was to use anti-virus followed by
Ad-Aware and<br>
Spybot<br>
Search & Destroy because each one found
different things. And<br>
the<br>
reboot often brought them back. I'm now using
Malware Bytes in<br>
addition to Spybot S&D and MS Security
Essentials. For<br>
anti-virus I<br>
tend to switch between AVG and whatever else is
free. I don't<br>
let<br>
Norton near any of my machines.<br>
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If you want the last bit of safety, then try
building a Windows<br>
boot<br>
CD or DVD as Andrew suggested and use it with
the USB stick. I<br>
may try<br>
BartPE myself.... The boot disk prevents the
contaminated system<br>
from<br>
executing and the USB stick is easy to update
with the latest<br>
and<br>
greatest. That is my two cents and worth every
penny you paid.<br>
:-)<br>
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Good luck with whatever you do.<br>
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Doug.<br>
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