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"use 98Lite and reinstall Windows with the 95(b) shell (using "sleek" it will give you a more stable shell and allows you to uninstall otherwise nonremovable "features"on top of taking away the webified desktop features)"

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Preston Boyington wrote:

>Christopher Fowler wrote:
>  
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>>Everytime I come to my parents house I have to clean crap off their
>>win98 machine.  All of it is adware. I'm using a D-Link firewall and
>>I do not think a firewall will solve this problem since most of
>>this mess comes through port 80.  Is there a way?
>>
>>One solution is to have 2 machines.  One for Win98 for their windows
>>stuff that is not connected to the internet.  The other running Linux
>>for browsing and such.  Or dual-boot may work?
>>
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>For 9x machines I would suggest this:
>
>partition the drive into two sections.  use "C" as normal and use "D" as your data.  place your bookmarks/My Documents/My Downloads/other user data here.
>
>use 98Lite and reinstall Windows with the 95(b) shell (using "sleek" it will give you a more stable shell and allows you to uninstall otherwise nonremovable "features"on top of taking away the webified desktop features).  not to mention that with a less bloated shell the machine will be faster.
>
>install ProTab to remove IE and redirect the My Documents/address book/etc to look into "D"
>
>once Windows is running make a ghost of this and place it into "D" (I make a folder called HDDImage)
>
>install basic software such as Analog X's Maxmem, the Proximotron, Kerio Personal Firewall, TweakUI, Powertoys, AVG AntiVirus, Abouttime (no msie) and make another image.
>
>after that you install the OpenOffice.org project and of course Mozilla FireFox.  for email I would probably use Mozilla Thunderbird or Foxmail.
>
>burn a bootable cdrom with the two ghost images and the restoration software and place this inside the case so it doesn't get lost.
>
>if you ever experience trouble or just want to clean up the machine (every 6 months) re-ghost from your images.  if you were careful all your user data will still be there since it was on a different partition.
>
>also running an online scan is helpful and will save you time:
&gt;<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.spywareguide.com/txt_onlinescan.html";>http://www.spywareguide.com/txt_onlinescan.html</a>
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&gt;dunno if that helps, but maybe it will give you some ideas.
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