Re: Wubi installation, Antivirus for Windows in Linux

> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Renato Patron
> <linux@patrondesigns.com> wrote:
>         Jim,

>         I found the hard way that you are right. I've lost hours just
>         to find
>         out that the computer is still unusable.
>         I'm wiping the disk and installing Ubuntu from scratch. I'll
>         have to
>         train my customer to use Ubuntu, but at least the computer
>         will be
>         working :)

>         Renato

>         On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 13:20 -0700, Jim March wrote:
>         > OK, Wubi is a bad idea generally and a terrible idea if
>         Windows is
>         > already infected.
>         >
>         > I strongly recommend using the standard install CD and doing
>         a guided
>         > partitioning process, shrinking the Windows partition and
>         installing
>         > Ubuntu in it's own, native partition.

>         >
>         > That STILL won't disinfect you but it'll at least give you a
>         working
>         > Ubuntu dual-boot setup.

>         >
>         > Jim
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