Your friend could install Avast I have been getting alerts that says it is free for businesses. On 2015/05/22 9:55 AM, Ryan Ware wrote: > 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 > <mailto: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 > <mailto: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. > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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