RE: [PcTech] Recovering XP Pro after Thinkpad hard disk

["Scott Johnson" <sjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would second the point on starting from a CLEAN machine by formatting the
drive.
Everything else looks good too.

I had never heard of eTrust before.  I checked them out and thought that at
least Sammy is pretty cool! ;-)

-- Scott

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Gary Kuznitz
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 1:05 PM
> To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Subject: Re: [PcTech] Recovering XP Pro after Thinkpad hard disk
>
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> Sorry to hear you are having so many problems.  There are
> many ways to attack
> this problem.  Probably everyone that has an opinion will
> give you a different
> solution that will probably get you going.  The question is
> how clean will the
> Thinkpad be after you are done.  If it was me (Only because I
> like a clean
> running PC)  I'd format the drive and re-install the recovery
> disk.  Not
> mandatory but that's what I would do.  Then before connecting
> the Thinkpad to
> any network I would go to a different PC and download ZoneAlarm from
> http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/zap/tri
> al/zapDownloadTria
> l.jsp
>
> and eTrust AntiVirus from
> https://www.my-
> etrust.com/services/ipe_support.cfm?CFID=13169705&CFTOKEN=139f
> efe-00040695-e51a-
> 1f4c-bb43-942f4512d026
>
> I'd write them to a CD,  Remove any AntiVirus currently on
> the ThinkPad and
> install both programs.  Make sure to re-boot after each.
> Then make sure to
> update eTrust signature files as the first thing after
> connecting to the
> internet.
>
> Now it would be a really good idea to run Windows Update and
> wait for it to
> completely download and update your Thinkpad.
>
> That's probably going to be a days worth of work but you
> should end up with a
> clean protected Thinkpad.
>
> Ok.  Now everyone can fire your cannons at me.  I'm sure
> there are going to be
> lots of opinions and shorter ways of getting back to work.
>
> Gary Kuznitz
>
> at http://archive.midrange.com/pctech.