At school we have 8 PCs available for international students to use, with ADSL, and in between my English-teaching activities I'm supposed to keep them all running more or less efficiently. While I was away recently there was utter chaos with hundreds of students using the machines completely unsupervised, with results that you can all imagine.
It's taken me the best part of a week of mornings to clear off all the v@ruses and other rubbish and restore the machines to their former state, but one big problem remains. On several machines Internet Explorer appears to have been hijacked by a Chinese version which has changed the tools menu and other things. Our Chinese students say they have done nothing except access their Chinese web sites, although they admit that there are rogue Chinese servers which have probably taken over IE on our machines. All the browsers work normally and no-one would be any the wiser, except for one machine which has obviously become corrupted and resets the content advisor ratings to zero, making it impossible to access any web pages. I can change this manually but it always reverts. I tried to repair IE through Add/Remove programs, but there was not even any mention of Internet Explorer there. There was a "repair" option on the Tools menu, but it only took me to a Chinese site, which even ! the Chinese students here couldn't make head or tail of. I then reinstalled IE 5.5 from the Internet, but there was no change (except that MicrosoftIE was now visible in Add/Remove programs and I could access the repair function from there). The problem of content ratings remained, so I tried reinstalling Win98SE in the hope that the bad version of IE would be overwritten. Still no change. What option is left to me now? I am loathe to reformat and start from scratch since there are lots of network and ADSL settings which I'm not too familiar with and may have trouble in restoring. Please advise! As soon as I get all the machines clean I'm going to clone the drives so if a similar problem occurs in future it will be a simple matter to restore them. I hope I've made the problem clear and will receive some helpful suggestions from the experts. TIA. Virginia Virginia Da Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
