Yep !
Dave
| Hi
|
| So what you are saying is that even though the program starts from
| Windows and goes to a DOS prompt it still hasn't really quit out of
| Windows properly and therefore the image reloading is not as clean as
| if it had been run from a boot disk?
|
| Sean
|
|
| On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 02:44:50 -0500, "David H. Lipman"
|
| >Sean
| >
| >I use Ghost 2003 at home and I use Enterprise Ghost v7.0 at work.
| >
| >Dave
| >
| >
| >
| >| >|
| >| Hi
| >|
| >| Thanks for the info on the worm. I wasn't aware of how e-mail
| >| addresses were obtained but I knew not to use my real address.
| >|
| >| I'm not sure if you have used this version of Ghost before but when
| >| you choose the option to reload an image, it reboots the computer to
| >| DOS twice, Windows is not running.
| >|
| >| Regards
| >|
| >| Sean
| >|
| >|
| >| On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:54:31 -0500, "David H. Lipman"
| >|
| >| >You are using the software wrong !
| >| >
| >| >You need to create a Ghost Boot Disk and use the DOS version of Ghost. The whole idea
of
| >a
| >| >perfect restoration is that the current OS is NOT running when being restored.
| >| >
| >| >In addition...
| >| >If you post to UseNet with your TRUE, not a munged, email address then you have now
| >invited
| >| >the Swen worm to visit you.
| >| >
| >| >The Swen is news spelled backwards. The reason it is called this is because the Swen
| >worm
| >| >harvests email addresses from UseNet News Groups. It has an engine that allows it to
| >post
| >| >itself to UseNet News Groups and well as it has its own email engine. From the list
of
| >| >email addresses that it has harvested, it will then email itself to those addresses.
| >| >
| >| >Dave
| >| >
| >| >
| >| >
| >| >| >| >|
| >| >| I use Norton Ghost 2003 on my notebook. They software is installed not
| >| >| used from a boot disk. When I start the Norton ghost program and
| >| >| choose to reload an image it asks weather I want to overwrite Windows.
| >| >| I normally do this.
| >| >| With the older versions of Ghost run from a floppy all of the contents
| >| >| of C drive was overwriten, with this version I am not sure what is not
| >| >| overwriten as I have made changes to the registry and boot.ini file,
| >| >| reloaded an image and these changes are still there.
| >| >|
| >| >| Does anyone know much about this? Is there a log of what Ghost does?
| >| >|
| >| >| Thanks.
| >| >|
| >| >
| >|
| >
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