On Thursday 27 May 2004 16:09, Nick FitzGerald wrote: > Michael Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We are building a Windows test system, to try out tool bars, spy ware, > > malware and trojans on. > > > > Once we learn what we need to know, we obviously want to get rid of the > > junk quickly and cleanly. > > > > I keep hearing suggestions about having a "clean image" to transfer onto > > the computer. > > > > Can anyone send some details? > > The most common approaches to this are the use of virtual machines > (VMWare, Virtual PC, etc) and drive image backups (Ghost, etc). There > are pros and cons to each and common pitfalls and issues to consider > carefully when setting this all up...
This is an interesting thread... But out of curiosity, is it also possible to do backup / restores using readily available linux tools? I'd like to be able to do something like running dd over a network connection, or tar, or whatever other tool. In that case, a bootable CD is all you need. But I'm unsure how to do that... Maarten -- Yes of course I'm sure it's the red cable. I guarante[^%!/+)F#0c|'NO CARRIER _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
