I have a windows 98, 7 GB hard drive and 63 MB RAM. I have never used linux before and want to install it on my machine. I have tried downloading different versions of linux and creating live CD’s but i cant get it to work. Is there a site that will give me instuctions on how to install linux and a download that will work for me. I would like one that has a GUI. Thankyou.
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Ok, I was caught while being on inapprobriate site. So parents put shit ass Picblock on my computer. Don’t have the pw and I’m limitted user. They even put pw on bios, so I can’t boot with linux live cd. But I really have to go on facebook, youtube etc. Is there anybody who can give advice how 2 circumvent this crappy software. It blocks all: pictures bad content on sites. I even can’t go on the homesite of horrible picblock. Believe me I tried all..
I downloaded the CD from this site :http://www.freedrweb.com/livecd/.
So if you can, check it out please, to learn more about what it is (unless you already know about it), because I really don’t know a lot about what it is. I believe there is a user manual at the bottom of the page.
The browser that it comes with is Mozilla Firefox. Whenever I try and install java or adobe flash player, It does say that the downloads where successful but when I try and access a program that requires Java, it still says that java is not installed. Does anyone know if there is a certain version of java I need to download for that platform, or if there’s anything else I can do to get it to work?
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I accidentally browsed to an infected site last week, and I got infected with a virus/trojan called Virtuamonde.
I ran SpyBot S&D, MBAM, and McAfee, and though SpyBot S&D was able to pinpoint the problem it could only remove the Registry entries, but could not remove the files (as they were in use). I used a Linux live CD to boot the machine and manually remove the infected files. It appears that Virtuamonde creates randomly-named DLLs in the C:WINDOWSSystem32 folder, which comprise the main part of the trojan. I removed all of the infected files as well as all related Registry entries, and none of my anti-virus/anti-spyware programs show any remaining infection. However, every hour, RUNDLL32.EXE is activated out of the blue. I used Process Explorer (http://www.sysinternals.com/ ) to determine that the command used to launch the process is:
C:WINDOWSsystem32rundll32.exe “C:WINDOWS
system32urqRHxUk.dll”,ShellPath
The file urqRHxUk.dll just happens to be one of the randomly-named DLLs that Virtuamonde installed (and that I subsequently deleted), so I believe this hourly process must be a result of the infection, however I have already removed urqRHxUk.dll (it no longer exists anywhere on my machine). I have also searched the entire Registry for any references to urqRHxUk.dll, but to no avail. I have noticed that this process often appears as a child process of SVCHOST.EXE, which is a service that is launched with the following command line:
C:WINDOWSsystem32svchost.exe -k netsvcs
This hourly instance of RUNDLL32.EXE seems to have no side effects (probably since the referenced DLL is deleted) but it bugs me that a process is spawning every hour and I can’t do anything about it. As I said before, I have searched the entire Registry for any related entries, but no luck.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Tagged Infection, site, trojan, Virtuamonde, virus, virus trojan, week
I’ve read on a linux forum site that shredding and melting a hard drive is the best way to get rid of information on it. or the next best is to find really good software and format it like 200 consecutive times. don’t really wanna do ‘neither of those. I’ve heard linux is best when when it comes to do with anything and everything about computers. like for instance, digging up old files on hard drives or formatting them. don’t remember the name of it, but I remember like a year ago, a friend had shown me this linux live cd. I think it had like a black desk top/background..?? he said it was like the next best thing to what the FBI uses. anyone know the name of that?? thanks, all
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