Re: [PcTech] Recovering XP Pro after Thinkpad hard disk

[Rob Dixon <rob.dixon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Booth



Booth Martin wrote:

> Your symptoms sound more like the msblast virus. Are you sure thats not the
> problem? 
This is the same as the "nachi" or "welchia" worm, the names of which  I 
gave in my second email yesterday, having forgotten to put them in the 
first.

Best wishes

Rob

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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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