Dear All, I am dual booting with win2000 and Suse8.2pro. I only use Suse, however I went into my win2000 yesterday briefly to check on something and noticed that it is not acting right. The cursor is lagging and it would shutdown on its own after a few minutes of use. I am hoping an email virus did not get to it through my linux email. Anyway I want to fix it by going into dos and using scanreg/all but will that wipe out my Suse as well? I will not do this until I know for sure it will not hurt my Suse 8.2 setup. Any thoughts will be appreciated. Thanks, Marcia
First off Windows can't even read linux partitions so it is impossible that a virus could get on through linux unless you specifically copied one over and ran it. I would suggest doing the registry scan which is safe and won't hurt suse. Also you should download spy bot search and destroy so that you can remove any spy ware that could be potentially slowing down your machine. Maybe some antivirus is in order but I wouldn't invest the money if you aren't using the machine. I think there are some free anti-virus solutions out there. Good Luck. Armando marcia wrote:
Dear All,
I am dual booting with win2000 and Suse8.2pro. I only use Suse, however I went into my win2000 yesterday briefly to check on something and noticed that it is not acting right. The cursor is lagging and it would shutdown on its own after a few minutes of use. I am hoping an email virus did not get to it through my linux email.
Anyway I want to fix it by going into dos and using scanreg/all but will that wipe out my Suse as well? I will not do this until I know for sure it will not hurt my Suse 8.2 setup.
Any thoughts will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Marcia
On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 11:12, Armando Cerna wrote:
marcia wrote:
Dear All,
I am dual booting with win2000 and Suse8.2pro. I only use Suse, however I went into my win2000 yesterday briefly to check on something and noticed that it is not acting right. The cursor is lagging and it would shutdown on its own after a few minutes of use. I am hoping an email virus did not get to it through my linux email.
Anyway I want to fix it by going into dos and using scanreg/all but will that wipe out my Suse as well? I will not do this until I know for sure it will not hurt my Suse 8.2 setup.
Any thoughts will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Marcia
First off Windows can't even read linux partitions so it is impossible that a virus could get on through linux unless you specifically copied one over and ran it. I would suggest doing the registry scan which is safe and won't hurt suse. Also you should download spy bot search and destroy so that you can remove any spy ware that could be potentially slowing down your machine. Maybe some antivirus is in order but I wouldn't invest the money if you aren't using the machine. I think there are some free anti-virus solutions out there. Good Luck.
Armando
Actually there is explorext2 which allows for access of an ext2 file system, and there is also a program being developed to allow windows users to browse a Reiser file system. Mike -- clarifying
On Thursday 27 May 2004 00:18, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 11:12, Armando Cerna wrote:
marcia wrote:
Dear All,
I am dual booting with win2000 and Suse8.2pro. I only use Suse, however I went into my win2000 yesterday briefly to check on something and noticed that it is not acting right. The cursor is lagging and it would shutdown on its own after a few minutes of use. I am hoping an email virus did not get to it through my linux email.
Anyway I want to fix it by going into dos and using scanreg/all but will that wipe out my Suse as well? I will not do this until I know for sure it will not hurt my Suse 8.2 setup.
Any thoughts will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Marcia
First off Windows can't even read linux partitions so it is impossible that a virus could get on through linux unless you specifically copied one over and ran it. I would suggest doing the registry scan which is safe and won't hurt suse. Also you should download spy bot search and destroy so that you can remove any spy ware that could be potentially slowing down your machine. Maybe some antivirus is in order but I wouldn't invest the money if you aren't using the machine. I think there are some free anti-virus solutions out there. Good Luck.
Armando
Actually there is explorext2 which allows for access of an ext2 file system, and there is also a program being developed to allow windows users to browse a Reiser file system.
Mike -- clarifying
Now thereś the sort of thing you dont need to hear windBlows getting access to the reiser FS bad news to say the least . -- G6NJR Pete otherwise known as "Quinton 11" A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan Pete,,,,, :-)
On Wednesday 26 May 2004 10:20 am, marcia wrote:
Dear All,
I am dual booting with win2000 and Suse8.2pro. I only use Suse, however I went into my win2000 yesterday briefly to check on something and noticed that it is not acting right. The cursor is lagging and it would shutdown on its own after a few minutes of use. I am hoping an email virus did not get to it through my linux email.
Anyway I want to fix it by going into dos and using scanreg/all but will that wipe out my Suse as well? I will not do this until I know for sure it will not hurt my Suse 8.2 setup.
Any thoughts will be appreciated.
Marcia, I have xp and suse9.1 on my Dell laptop and just went through all that scan stuff the other day without a problem. I know XP is an upgraded version of NT/2k so it shouldnt affect your Linux side. Of course, "shouldn't" is no way near any kind of guarantee! Being braver than smart, I would simply do it, but only after backing up my /home directory. If it screws up your 8.2 then you are ready to upgrade to 9.1. Of course, all this presupposes you really want to fix the 2k side. If you dont use it, why bother? RA
If your Win2000 is using NTFS, you can't get there from DOS. DOS doesn't know how to read that FS. And regular old DOS can't read the 32-bit FS, either. Did you ever create some sort of rescue disk, or is there a boot floppy that came with Win2K? That should work. Good luck. --doug On Wednesday 26 May 2004 11:20, marcia wrote:
Dear All,
I am dual booting with win2000 and Suse8.2pro. I only use Suse, however I went into my win2000 yesterday briefly to check on something and noticed that it is not acting right. The cursor is lagging and it would shutdown on its own after a few minutes of use. I am hoping an email virus did not get to it through my linux email.
Anyway I want to fix it by going into dos and using scanreg/all but will that wipe out my Suse as well? I will not do this until I know for sure it will not hurt my Suse 8.2 setup.
Any thoughts will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Marcia
Doug McGarrett wrote:
If your Win2000 is using NTFS, you can't get there from DOS. DOS doesn't know how to read that FS. And regular old DOS can't read the 32-bit FS, either. Did you ever create some sort of rescue disk, or is there a boot floppy that came with Win2K? That should work. Good luck. --doug
On Wednesday 26 May 2004 11:20, marcia wrote:
Dear All,
I am dual booting with win2000 and Suse8.2pro. I only use Suse, however I went into my win2000 yesterday briefly to check on something and noticed that it is not acting right. The cursor is lagging and it would shutdown on its own after a few minutes of use. I am hoping an email virus did not get to it through my linux email.
Anyway I want to fix it by going into dos and using scanreg/all but will that wipe out my Suse as well? I will not do this until I know for sure it will not hurt my Suse 8.2 setup.
Any thoughts will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Marcia
Thank you all for replying. Yes, why bother fixing the windows2000 if I do not use it. I may not for awhile. ;-) I am glad to know that an email virus cannot find my windows disk and do anything. That is a relief. I know that I have been getting a flood of email viruses, but of course they do not affect my Suse 8.2. :-)
I do have a boot disk which will help if I need it. Maybe the knoppix CD? Hmmm. I guess I can work on that someday when it is important enough. All of your advice has been helpful. Thank you all. Marcia
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