So I have the dubious honor of doubling as our in-house IT staff. It’s not actually my job, but I’m the best at it in the building. Which means it’s my duty to freshen up a virus-ridden WinXP computer.
I’ve thrown everything I got at it, which mostly includes running several free scanners from a Linux boot disk, and doing all the regular cleaning procedures from safe mode. And it’s still there. I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s probably easier and safer to install from scratch.
So I have the dubious honor of doubling as our in-house IT staff. It’s not actually my job, but I’m the best at it in the building. Which means it’s my duty to freshen up a virus-ridden WinXP computer.
I’ve thrown everything I got at it, which mostly includes running several free scanners from a Linux boot disk, and doing all the regular cleaning procedures from safe mode. And it’s still there. I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s probably easier and safer to install from scratch.
I’ve got an interesting question for the peanut gallery. At work, we’ve gone through a few changes in the last few years. We’ve changed ink providers twice, changed color systems, and changed proofers.
One of the bizarre things that we have to do now and then is reprint an old file (reprinting is routine, old files are routine, hear me out) – the bizarre part is trying to get the color to match from the previous printing to the current system.