Reloading my netbook after malware infection...

[richie]

Is it worth reloading my netbook with its built in the HD restore system or would that be infected too. I removed the malware in about February, but the machine is still not perfectly right and I have no qualms about reinstalling everything...

Thanks

 

[scud]

You're going to have to find out some time or other anyway... why wait until it's really important and you've not got time on your side?

"Clean" the machine as best you can, using anti malware etc and reinstall from your back up - scan, update, install your preferred programs (office etc), update, scan and then backup.

Your next clean install will be a damn sight quicker then

 

[Dave Ett]

Why not do a fresh install of Ubuntu downloaded from the net? Fab operating system - so long as you don't want to use mapsource...

 

[richie]

Why not do a fresh install of Ubuntu downloaded from the net? Fab operating system - so long as you don't want to use mapsource...

Agreed, maybe a dual boot system as I use Flash and Dreamweaver. Apart from that Ubuntu would be fine.

So before I run the re install program on my netbook do I download ubuntu???, Or reinstall and then Ubintu. For those that know.

 

[richie]

Have reinstalled Windows and added Avast and Firefox and removed MS Office.

Now downloading Ubuntu onto external disk and will try a dual boot system. Any tips...

 

[GunZenBomZ]

Fresh clean install will kill/wipe-out everything. (Don't faff about with malware if you going to wipe the drive.)

If your bios is infected then your stuffed but I highly doubt your have had that happen.

Really really paranoid? then swap the hdd for a fresh one, windows etcetra will sort it out.

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So now you need to deal with protection, AVG anti-virus, spybot search&destroy, ccleaner, all free from www.filehippo.com

 

[GunZenBomZ]

using the brilliant FAR safer web browser firefox.

Get these addons;

NoScript
Adblocker plus
Visit www.liveleak.com for linkage for adobe flash player.

Bubye

 

[richie]

Fresh clean install will kill/wipe-out everything. (Don't faff about with malware if you going to wipe the drive.)

If your bios is infected then your stuffed but I highly doubt your have had that happen.

Really really paranoid? then swap the hdd for a fresh one, windows etcetra will sort it out.

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So now you need to deal with protection, AVG anti-virus, spybot search&destroy, ccleaner, all free from www.filehippo.com

I would say it's clean now. Thing is when I am travelling I log in at any point of access available. So I want to install Ubuntu for connecting whilst away. All I really need are
HTML editor
Web Browser
Music and Films (for the kids)
Photo storage.

So how about the dual boot, anyone any experience, in any case I will try it out and if it does not work I will wipe the thing again.

 

[richie]

using the brilliant FAR safer web browser firefox.

Get these addons;

NoScript
Adblocker plus
Visit www.liveleak.com for linkage for adobe flash player.

Bubye

Aurevoir et merci

 

[richie]

Have downloaded Ubuntu and Gparted.

Will try tomorrow as now is beer time and it'llgive anybody here who knows the chance to reply. As I understand it.

Gparted to sort out a partition in my already formatted and partitioned drive
Ubuntu - to well, install ubuntu

 

[(RIP) Kaister]

i'm using Linux mint - based on ubuntu, but somehow nicer,better and more user friendly - apart from that, exactly the same

All ubuntu upgrades automatically work too.


ps you can get qualms on the interweb, i think.

 

[richie]

i'm using Linux mint - based on ubuntu, but somehow nicer,better and more user friendly - apart from that, exactly the same

All ubuntu upgrades automatically work too.


ps you can get qualms on the interweb, i think.

Cheers Phil, but now realised that my netbook won't open a iso file so looking for solution FFS you'd think they"d thought of that....

 

[Dave Ett]

Dual boot with ubuntu works painlessly. You simply get the option during install to keep existing or clean install, then have an option at boot to select the operating system you want.

 

[wessie]

Cheers Phil, but now realised that my netbook won't open a iso file so looking for solution FFS you'd think they"d thought of that....[/QUOTE

Is the iso file for a bootable CD/DVD? If so, save it to a memory stick and set your bios to boot from that.

If you need the iso file visible to windows then download Daemon tools lite or any other programme that will give you a virtual CD/DVD drive. Install the programme and then mount the ISO image to the virtual drive. I've been using this method to install various software to my netbook.

 

[richie]

Cheers Phil, but now realised that my netbook won't open a iso file so looking for solution FFS you'd think they"d thought of that....[/QUOTE

Is the iso file for a bootable CD/DVD? If so, save it to a memory stick and set your bios to boot from that.

If you need the iso file visible to windows then download Daemon tools lite or any other programme that will give you a virtual CD/DVD drive. Install the programme and then mount the ISO image to the virtual drive. I've been using this method to install various software to my netbook.

cheers

 

[richie]

Running now off a 2gig SD card, and installing to hard disk after it sorted out the repartitions.
20gig for windows hidden recovery, 80 gig for windows and the rest for ubuntu....
Any recommendations for ubuntu HTML editors like Dreamweaver?