Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> Got pwned by Conficker.B - Fought back & won
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> | Our WinXP lappy (used for business & personal) was infected by
> | Conficker.B, rendering it a zombie-bot tethered to a botnet somewhere.
> | In the end, the OS is replaced with Linux & the data are preserved.
> | Complete functionality is restored... All while on the road.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | After about a day and a half, I gave up trying to save the system and
> | decided to try to /replace/ it. I began by using my Nokia N810
> | (linux-based internet tablet[3]) to download onto its flash card:
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> | - unetbootin[4] and
> | - the iso for gOS 3.1[5].
> |
> | I put the card into a usb reader and plugged it back into the infected
> | lappy. Then, I:
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> | - loaded and ran unetbootin & gOS iso,
> | - manually created some partitions via the gOS install,
> | - installed gOS (applied patches, etc)
> | - moved data from NTFS to ext3 partition
> | - removed NTFS partition.
> |
> | At that point, we had a (trusted) computer with networking, productivity
> | apps and our data again. The process (excluding download time) took
> | about four hours.
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HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH!
It's almost like mother nature see Windows as an abhorrence, and is getting
rid of it!
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If we wish to reduce our ignorance, there are people we will
indeed listen to. Trolls are not among those people, as trolls, more or
less by definition, *promote* ignorance.
Kelsey Bjarnason, C.O.L.A. 2008
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