From: "blah" <stfuhellworld@yah00.c0m.4u>

| 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???
|

When it comes to malware, this is NOT a good scheme. The second partition data can/will be
affected by malware.

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Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm