Re: Recovering XP Pro after Thinkpad hard disk

Your symptoms sound more like the msblast virus. Are you sure thats not the
problem?

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Booth Martin http://www.MartinVT.com
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-------Original Message-------

From: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 1:26:55 PM
To: 'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'
Subject: RE: [PcTech] Recovering XP Pro after Thinkpad hard disk

I would second the point on starting from a CLEAN machine by formatting the
drive.
Everything else looks good too.

I had never heard of eTrust before. I checked them out and thought that at
least Sammy is pretty cool! ;-)

-- Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Gary Kuznitz
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 1:05 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PcTech] Recovering XP Pro after Thinkpad hard disk

Hi Rob,

Sorry to hear you are having so many problems. There are
many ways to attack
this problem. Probably everyone that has an opinion will
give you a different
solution that will probably get you going. The question is
how clean will the
Thinkpad be after you are done. If it was me (Only because I
like a clean
running PC) I'd format the drive and re-install the recovery
disk. Not
mandatory but that's what I would do. Then before connecting
the Thinkpad to
any network I would go to a different PC and download ZoneAlarm from
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/zap/tri
al/zapDownloadTria
l.jsp

and eTrust AntiVirus from
https://www.my-
etrust.com/services/ipe_support.cfm?CFID=13169705&CFTOKEN=139f
efe-00040695-e51a-
1f4c-bb43-942f4512d026

I'd write them to a CD, Remove any AntiVirus currently on
the ThinkPad and
install both programs. Make sure to re-boot after each.
Then make sure to
update eTrust signature files as the first thing after
connecting to the
internet.

Now it would be a really good idea to run Windows Update and
wait for it to
completely download and update your Thinkpad.

That's probably going to be a days worth of work but you
should end up with a
clean protected Thinkpad.

Ok. Now everyone can fire your cannons at me. I'm sure
there are going to be
lots of opinions and shorter ways of getting back to work.

Gary Kuznitz

at http://archive.midrange.com/pctech.

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