I also use Hijack This! and Startup Control Panel... both excellent tools, but many less-experienced computer users won't know what to do with the scan info from HjT, nor which startup entries can safely be turned off. I therefore only recommend them to those who know what they are doing under the hood.
George, KA3HSW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Morris" <wa6...@gmail.com> To: <Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 11:32 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Sorry everyone [snip] > > Add "Hijack This!" to your toolkit. > Excellent for clearing crud out of hijacked browsers. > I keep a copy in my virus removal toolkit - and the > copy is named iexplore.exe so that the malware > that does filename checks lets it run (like some > blackmail-ware). > > Add Mike Lin's Startup Control (the single file exe version, > not the installed version) as it helps resolve issues with > programs that start when the system starts up. > > I have all my antivirus tools on a SD card that is in a USB > flash drive reader. Why an SD card? Because the card has > a write protect switch. Load the card, flip the switch, and it > can't be written to like a regular flash drive can. > Other than write protection I treat it just like any other flash > drive. > > See > <http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/item/SDR-1/SD-CARD-READER/WRITER-USB-2.0/1.html> > The reader costs $4. A 4gb card is under $20. > Naturally larger cards are more expensive. > > The SD card and matching reader is cheap protection for the > antivirus / malware remover part your computer toolkit. > > The only complaint I have is that the All Electronics reader is > a bit "fat" and blocks the adjacent USB jack on some systems. > A 3 inch USB extension cord fixes that. > > Lastly - never use a flash drive / thumb drive / pen drive as your > permanent storage - only as a secondary or transit storage device. > I've seen too many die with no notice, and be irrecoverable. One > client's daughter lost a three week vacation / honeymoon worth > of photos. Another lost several hundred photos of a Grand Canyon > raft trip. > Both my 16bg regular toolkit and my 4gb antivirus toolkit have a > backup copy as a folder on a raid-protected server and as a folder > on my laptop. If the flash drive dies (and it has twice in three > years) I just buy a new one, load it up and use it. > > Mike WA6ILQ > >
