[ale] OT: Win98 + Infections

[Christopher R. Curzio]

http://www.litepc.com/98lite.html

I've used this on many of my friends' machines. It's excellent.

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Thus Spake Dow Hurst <Dow.Hurst at mindspring.com>:
Tue, 06 Jul 2004 21:18:40 -0400


> Preston,
> Would explain what these options are as I've never heard of 98Lite or
> the 95(b) shell or sleek.  Thanks for your time and thought as you have
> some excellent ideas here.
> 
> "use 98Lite and reinstall Windows with the 95(b) shell (using "sleek" it
> will give you a more stable shell and allows you to uninstall otherwise
> nonremovable "features"on top of taking away the webified desktop
> features)"
> 
> Dow
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> Preston Boyington wrote:
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> >Christopher Fowler wrote:
> >  
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> >>Everytime I come to my parents house I have to clean crap off their
> >>win98 machine.  All of it is adware. I'm using a D-Link firewall and
> >>I do not think a firewall will solve this problem since most of
> >>this mess comes through port 80.  Is there a way?
> >>
> >>One solution is to have 2 machines.  One for Win98 for their windows
> >>stuff that is not connected to the internet.  The other running Linux
> >>for browsing and such.  Or dual-boot may work?
> >>
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> >
> >For 9x machines I would suggest this:
> >
> >partition the drive into two sections.  use "C" as normal and use "D"
> >as your data.  place your bookmarks/My Documents/My Downloads/other
> >user data here.
> >
> >use 98Lite and reinstall Windows with the 95(b) shell (using "sleek" it
> >will give you a more stable shell and allows you to uninstall otherwise
> >nonremovable "features"on top of taking away the webified desktop
> >features).  not to mention that with a less bloated shell the machine
> >will be faster.
> >
> >install ProTab to remove IE and redirect the My Documents/address
> >book/etc to look into "D"
> >
> >once Windows is running make a ghost of this and place it into "D" (I
> >make a folder called HDDImage)
> >
> >install basic software such as Analog X's Maxmem, the Proximotron,
> >Kerio Personal Firewall, TweakUI, Powertoys, AVG AntiVirus, Abouttime
> >(no msie) and make another image.
> >
> >after that you install the OpenOffice.org project and of course Mozilla
> >FireFox.  for email I would probably use Mozilla Thunderbird or
> >Foxmail.
> >
> >burn a bootable cdrom with the two ghost images and the restoration
> >software and place this inside the case so it doesn't get lost.
> >
> >if you ever experience trouble or just want to clean up the machine
> >(every 6 months) re-ghost from your images.  if you were careful all
> >your user data will still be there since it was on a different
> >partition.
> >
> >also running an online scan is helpful and will save you time:
> >http://www.spywareguide.com/txt_onlinescan.html
> >
> >dunno if that helps, but maybe it will give you some ideas.
> >
> >preston
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