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• Login Fail: repeated auto logouts after successful login

  So I cleaned a PC and ran into a problem. The Windows splash screen would  appear and then the login prompt would load. As soon as I logged in, I got IMMEDIATELY logged back out again. I tried recovery console. I tried safe mode. This problem is documented on Microsoft’s website here.
  Here is are 2 [...]

  Posted on Mar 27.09 to it guy   

• 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 [...]

  Posted on Mar 05.09 to imaging, it guy, malware, manual labor, novell, plugin feature   

• 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 [...]

  Posted on Dec 03.08 to hack, it guy, malware, manual labor, netware, network