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~Sage
Hi y'all, I posted awhile back about a seriously compromised PC and
although you may not need them for my questions below, I am providing
the link to *said* posts:
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...d649a2?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=~Sage#3e09082b8bd649a2
Since then, my friend decided to buy a new PC (yeah!), and I decided
not to try and post logs from her bad one, her Windows XP was acting
very sick, but I managed to copy all the important files she needed to
a flash drive. I need to test the flash drive before letting her put
the old files on her new PC.
She brought me an old Compaq running Win ME, and I know it would have
come with Win98, it's also a compromised machine..(sigh)..so, we don't
*care* about this machine, can I format it, put Win98 on it, then
connect to my network, download & update Avast (which will run on 98)
and test/ clean up the files on the flash drive?
The flash drive was formatted for NTSF and of course has XP files on
it, so will this even work? What else can I run along with Avast that
would catch the malware in today's world in a Win98 environment?
Would I need to find all the 98 updates (if they're still out there)
or could I slide by without that? Your help will be most appreciated!
~Sage
although you may not need them for my questions below, I am providing
the link to *said* posts:
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...d649a2?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=~Sage#3e09082b8bd649a2
Since then, my friend decided to buy a new PC (yeah!), and I decided
not to try and post logs from her bad one, her Windows XP was acting
very sick, but I managed to copy all the important files she needed to
a flash drive. I need to test the flash drive before letting her put
the old files on her new PC.
She brought me an old Compaq running Win ME, and I know it would have
come with Win98, it's also a compromised machine..(sigh)..so, we don't
*care* about this machine, can I format it, put Win98 on it, then
connect to my network, download & update Avast (which will run on 98)
and test/ clean up the files on the flash drive?
The flash drive was formatted for NTSF and of course has XP files on
it, so will this even work? What else can I run along with Avast that
would catch the malware in today's world in a Win98 environment?
Would I need to find all the 98 updates (if they're still out there)
or could I slide by without that? Your help will be most appreciated!
~Sage