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.

You friend should obviously encourage the employer to spend a few bucks on
anti viurs.




On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Clug <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote:

> This is getting more into philosophy and ethics than Linux, but I'm always
> up for a discussion.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> And yes, in an ideal world my friend could also quit the hell out of that
> job and get a better one, but...
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 21 May 2015, Ryan Ware wrote:
>
>  The right thing to do would be to tell the employer so they can fix the
>> machine properly and be aware that they may have a malware infested
>> machine
>> that may be doing bad things on their network and to other machines.  To
>> do
>> otherwise is irresponsible.  The employer may be much more dissatisfied
>> with
>> the employee if things drag on and the problem migrates to other computers
>> in the organization.
>>
>> On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 10:20 PM, Doug Reed <n0nas at amsat.org> wrote:
>>       I have nothing useful to add regarding a Linux boot disk image
>>       to run
>>       malware tools on a Windows box. I always question how recent the
>>       tools
>>       are and how well they are geared to finding problems on Windows
>>       rather
>>       than Linux.
>>
>>       I think you already gave the best suggestion, install portable
>>       versions of as many Windows AV tools as you can find on a USB
>>       stick.
>>       As Marc said, plan to use multiple tools and run each one at
>>       least one
>>       more time after it finds no errors, rebooting between each
>>       test.....
>>       My old routine was to use anti-virus followed by Ad-Aware and
>>       Spybot
>>       Search & Destroy because each one found different things. And
>>       the
>>       reboot often brought them back. I'm now using Malware Bytes in
>>       addition to Spybot S&D and MS Security Essentials. For
>>       anti-virus I
>>       tend to switch between AVG and whatever else is free. I don't
>>       let
>>       Norton near any of my machines.
>>
>>       If you want the last bit of safety, then try building a Windows
>>       boot
>>       CD or DVD as Andrew suggested and use it with the USB stick. I
>>       may try
>>       BartPE myself.... The boot disk prevents the contaminated system
>>       from
>>       executing and the USB stick is easy to update with the latest
>>       and
>>       greatest. That is my two cents and worth every penny you paid.
>>       :-)
>>
>>       Good luck with whatever you do.
>>
>>       Doug.
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>>
>>
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