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- Q&A: Imaging and viruses
Q. Can a virus survive a reimage?
A. A virus could only survive reimaging if it had infected the boot sector and the reimaging process did not overwrite the boot sector with a clean one.
Q. Can a computer infect the image server during reimage?
A. The computer, while being reimaged, are not booted into the OS. There [...]
- User Groups Overview
This document is an additional fact sheet on the differences between various user groups in Windows XP. Please read the documentation on Domain and Passwords in Windows XP before reading this document.
Every user account on a Windows XP machine is part of a local user group on that computer. A user group is a set [...]
- Network Scan
Got an email from security concerning a virus. in the email last listed specific machines by ip address. not real helpful to list machines by IP address in a dynamic environment.
- Moving data PC to PC pt1
i’ve been looking for a migration utility that will move programs, files, drivers and desktop settings. I recently upgraded/replaced 200 PCs in various places around my main school. I still need to upgrade my adminstrators’ PCs. unfortunately, they have years worth of sensitive data and software that can not be replaced. I tired Laplink PC [...]
- Trojan horse IRC/BackDoor.SdBot4.GYM
Today my entire school district was stricken by a worm. The symptoms involed:
loss of sound card in device manager
deletion of audio drivers
TCP/IP corruption
It’s been eating our network all week. I’m not sure how, but the bug was propogating via our network. To stop this, I’ve been imaging machines as I find them. Then I’d recreate [...]
- Learning Imaging on the Job
As a school tech, I often have to push a single software change or update to a room of 30 machines. Sometimes, I need to push a bunch of updates to multiple machines across my entire school. I’ve been using my district’s standard imaging tool – Zenworks imaging – to get the job done. After [...]
- Just a little advice
I’ve found that nearly 65% of problems I encounter, whether in business or at home, are not caused by hardware problems, They aren’t caused by viruses or spam. Many issues are user-related, but most of the issues I work on are caused by background tasks belonging legitimate and everyday software. I recently posted about WORD [...]
- Disable/uninstall Trend Micro without the password
Found a way to disable/uninstall Trend Micro without the password.
Just change it. here’s how
I had the same problem because it was a Corporate edition. Follow these steps, it worked for me. To remove / reset the uninstall password for Trend Micro OfficeScan, Edit Ofcscan.ini file. ( If it’s not in your Tren micro program folder, [...]
- My Name is Cable, Dawg
When I was in the ARMY, there was an IT related job that I wanted no part of. The OS has been merged into something else, but the overall job was running cable. Many a recruit signed up for that job thinking they were going to get free certification level educations and ended up hopping [...]
