Josef Lowder said:
>
> Seems to me that chasing this problem on a M$ OS system is a never-
> ending problem and a bottomless pit. I run Linux almost exclusively and
> I have never had a virus, worm, trojan, or any other such malady.
I agree. Same here.
> My objective was/is _not_ to facilitate and encourage ongoing use of
> any retarded M$ system, but rather to demonstrate yet another
> dimension of Linux's ability too provide a remedy without having to
> waste time and money on yet more anti-virus software and the endless
> updating that is required of everyone who goes down that road.
>
> I want to keep the focus on the greater stability and security that she
> has when she boots to her Linux partition each time her M$
> system gets messed up again.
Good goal.
> We ended up copying important data files from the winxp partition to
> the linux partition and reformatting and reinstalling the winxp
> partition, but what a waste of time. Seems to me that it would have
> been a whole lot easier and less time consuming to just find and delete
> the file(s) that infected the winxp partition and let it continue to
> limp along in its usual unstable, vulnerable, half-baked condition.
The problem with what you want to do is that it not practical. All those
bad programs, by design, attempt to hide themselves from any attempt to
eradicate them. Their filenames are random or look like legitimate OS
components. Their registry entries are obfuscated along with the real
ones you don't want to delete. Symantic and the other virus protection
software vendors have large, full-time staffs paid lots of money to
attempt to keep up with the morphing, hiding and changing of all this
nasty stuff. And even then, they fail to keep up at times. An open, free
and Free remedy would have to do all that research and testing to keep up
with it all. Such a project could probably exist but why, when the real
solution is to not use a vulnerable system in the first place? Prevention
is so much easier than a cure!
My father has the perfect example of a less-vulnerable MS OS installation,
after spending $250+ on additional protection software. He doesn't want
to use an external firewall or change to a more secure OS, so he pays the
price to play securely in the arena he has chosen.
Alan
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