[Hidden-tech] PC technician recommendations?

[Kiernan G-S]

No, it does not have it automated. But a lot of live windows CDs such as
bart builds come with apps you can run to clean up the PC.  Or a good
technician will honestly probably clean it up faster manually.   It doesnt
take long to manually remove the nasty stuff from the most common/important
places using command prompt from a live CD.


~Kiernan

Head Technician - Green Earth Computers
www.greenearthcomputers.us
Kiernan at gmail.com
413-282-TECH

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On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:15 PM, nestor at fuzzy-math.com <nestor at fuzzy-math.com
> wrote:

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>
> Yes, that is true.  I did neglect to mention that option, as  a windows
> live-cd is not a standard piece of kit for a user.  I've used linux liveCDs
> to manually remove junk from pcs, but never Bart.  Does Bart provide
> utilities to automate the removal of malware and clean the registry?
>
>
> On Dec 7, 2009, at 12:57 PM, Kiernan G-S wrote:
>
>   ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
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>
> Nestor,
>
> I would have to humbly disagree on that account.  I think there are many
> (obviously not all) situations where even a heavily virus/spyware/malware
> infected PC can be cleaned thoroughly and reasonably quickly (1-2 hours) by
> launching off of a live (bart PE, etc) CD and cleaning out hostile files and
> then cleaning up remnants (files, registry, startup tasks, etc) in
> safe-mode.   Defragging and all that is helpful, although autorun on many
> PCs now.  Also not someone a good/honest technician should be charging to
> sit and watch run.
>
> ~Kiernan
>
> Head Technician - Green Earth Computers
> www.greenearthcomputers.us
> Kiernan at gmail.com
> 413-282-TECH
>
> Membership Coordinator - Worlds Apart Games
> www.worldsapartgames.org
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:03 AM, nestor at fuzzy-math.com <
> nestor at fuzzy-math.com> wrote:
>
>>   ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>>   ** If you did, we all thank you.
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>>
>> Any good, well: honest, Pc tech will tell you to start over.  The best you
>> can do with a swamped PC that has out of date antivirus or none at all is
>> backup as much data as possible and reinstall windows.  The other option is
>> to "contain" or remove all the bad stuff you can find, defrag, and clean the
>> registry (which never seems to net great results).  That would take a while,
>> and I know I'd charge you a bundle.
>>
>> On Dec 7, 2009, at 1:21 AM, Hope Nilsson wrote:
>>
>>   ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
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>> Hi HT folks,
>>
>> I've got a laptop that needs some attention. It's been slow for ages but
>> now it's clearly got some nasty malware on it and is refusing to boot up.
>> It's not my primary machine, or I'd have put more effort into fixing it. Can
>> anyone recommend a good PC technician in the North Adams area (or within an
>> hour or so's drive)? I'd like someone to clean the machine out, make sure
>> nothing nasty is lurking around, and get it back to a reasonable state of
>> functioning.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
>>
>> Hope
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