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"blah" <stfuhellworld@yah00.c0m.4u> wrote in message
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> Hello people. It seems these days that there is just more crap (in a home
> environment) infecting peoples computers. Whether it be spyware, adware,
> Trojans or/and viruses its a pain in the arse to disinfect. Traditionally
> you go about patching systems , real time scanning, host editing and user
> education as a first line of defence. I have found that if you give a home
> customer a limited user account they will ring you every time they want to
> install something new. If you tell them to only log in as admin to install
> stuff they just end up using the admin account all the time. Then comes
> removing the infection. As every body know this can be time-consuming
> often taking longer than it would take to backup then format the system.
>
> What I was thinking (which is nothing new), is having two partitions on
> one hdd. Part 1 = windows Part 2= hidden. You have all the settings and
> individual data (psts, ie6 favourites, my documents) stored and accessed
> from part 2 . When the customer uses the computer it seems like a normal
> windows xp installation. When there is an infection you just re-image
> partition 1 ( in 1 step?) with the pre configured image. None of the
> settings will be lost because the xp installation will still look for
> settings and psts, ie6 favourites, my document on part 2 ? Does anyone
> know of any software that can help me do this???
>