[pchelpers] Re: AVG dos vrs AVG windows

Hi Pc

> As soon as I saw that ezsb.exe was connected with Ezula this puppy was 
> nuked.
> First I ran a spyware cleaner and Ezula was found. This ezsb.exe only 
> showed up
> after the cleaning. I guess the parent was hiding this program somehow 
> and when
> she was gone the Dos scan found it.

What antispyware program did you use? It's good to know which ones are 
good at finding some stuff and which ones are also good at cleaning up 
more of the remnants.

> FYI: In the old days of 98 when you installed AVG it included a Dos 
> scanner that
> ran at boot-up before going into windows.

I guess it and other antivirus programs still run that boot scan even 
now in 98, and they also run an equivalent boot sector scan in XP and 
Vista, just not in DOS.

> I'm getting tired of this computer.
> It is a Win.98 Cel. 366 MHz with 80 mb ram. 2 g HD
> 
> I built it way back when it was the top of the line.
> My customer is still running it after all this time and I'm the only he 
> will let touch it.

You should get an environmental protection award. Incredible amounts of 
material are mined and huge amounts of pollution are produced each time 
a new computer is produced. Most of the old computers end up as 
hazardous landfill and even recycling is completely insane as already 
this old article explains, and things have gone from bad to worse to 
insane since then:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE7DB1331F937A25757C0A965958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=3

Alex Randall is one man who believes that dismantling, recycling and 
melting down old computers is misguided nonsense. He is president of the 
East-West Education Development Foundation, a Boston-based charity, that 
refurbishes second-hand computers and gives them to groups deemed worthy 
in 130 countries.

The foundation's computers are used for everything from monitoring 
elections in the Ivory Coast to running municipal governments in 
Romania. Less than 3 percent of the world's population has ever touched 
a computer, Mr. Randall notes.

"Ninety-seven percent of the people on the planet would regard an 
outdated I.B.M. PC as a ride on a rocket ship," he said. "Melting the 
thing down is not its highest and best use. None of these machines 
should die. In the right hands, they are mind-enhancing tools."

> It is getting so I'm going over to his house every 4-5 months to clean 
> it up.

Is he using IE and/or just installing loads of junk? Does he have 
antispyware with real-time protection? WinPatrol also runs on 98.

> You forget just how slow these things were until you sit there trying to 
> scan the thing.

It would probably still run fairly fast with Linux, and then it wouldn't 
get infected.

> I'm really thinking about putting together a faster computer from all my 
> left over
> cast offs and giving the thing to him. At least I would be able to get 
> out of his house
> faster as he is a heavy smoker and i stink to high heaven when I come out.

Sounds like you should either wear a gas mask! You'd also save a huge 
amount of time if you took the computer home with you and let the scans 
run while you're doing other things.

> His a:\ drive doesn't even work cause of the yellow build up in it. Hate 
> to see what the inside of his computer looks like.

Hope you're not accidentally helping to create a fire hazard...


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