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Oh bum. The senior citizens' puter has gone and GOTTEN sick. My best guestimate [wow, the spill chicken licks this] is that they've gone and got themselves one of them thar viruseses. It boots, even in safe mode, to ask for a password with a input dialog that is clearly NOT part of Windows XP.
I have persuaded them to scrap the mofu and get themselves a new box; so far so good. The only slight, tiny, itsy-bitsy problem is that they have a lot of un-backed up photos, etc, etc, etc that they would like to keep if possible.
What I am thinking of is an OS on a stick so I can go in, boot up off the stick, and copy out all their old documents to another stick. Do any of you have any suggestions of how to approach this?
veni bibi saltavi
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I did it also this way, at least twice, to restore data from a "lost" Win XP system. It makes it possible, of course, to scan for errors and to remove virusses.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: What I am thinking of is an OS on a stick so I can go in, boot up off the stick, and copy out all their old documents to another stick. Do any of you have any suggestions of how to approach this?
I would suggest using an OS on a stick[^], booting off the stick[^], and copying out all their documents[^].
It's actually a lot easier than it feels it will be if you've never done it before.
Remember to save the state of the OS-on-a-stick when you exit, if you've made changes or installed things you want to keep.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Sounds worryingly like a Cryptolocker-style trojan... which would mean it's all been encrypted so booting off something else won't help.
I hope not.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Even that is recoverable[^]. I just want to get them off their old box [done] and hopefully get some of their stuff back. I have a puppy stick, so hopefully I can do /something/
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I help people with viruses and stuff, so I bookmarked that site for future reference. Have a 5!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Another thing you may want to look at is the Bitdefender Rescue CD[^]. I have a copy on a USB drive for helping people remove malware.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I think that site was a one off, from when researchers took down a bunch of cryptolocker CNC servers last summer. Current versions probably use different private keys and will still have their victims elephanted if they don't have a clean backup.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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We'll see and, hopefully, they'll learn
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Boot off a CD not a stick for recovery purposes. You don't want to get your stick infected if whatever the PC has includes something that's taken over the boot loader...
My, admittedly slightly paranoid, recovery process would start by booting a clean and diskless (this step is probably overkill) computer via a CD, and then accessing the infected disk over a USB adapter that's first connected after booting.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Let's learn MS-DOS 6.0[^]
Apologies to USians if she's famous over there, this is new to me.
OT: Can one of you tell me where the "Any" key is?
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It's this one[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Oh for a simpler time. 
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Which is odd as today she is on crack!
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So am I, but probably not the same type... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I could feel the IQ points dropping away by the double digits.
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Keith Barrow wrote: Can one of you tell me where the "Any" key is?
its any where
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You mean to say that ANY key is "Any" key? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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No, i meant to say "any where" is "any key" 
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The "Any" key? See here[^].
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Keith Barrow wrote: Apologies to USians if she's famous over there, this is new to me.
Never heard of her.
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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She has a weekly syndicated radio program, she reports and helps the masses with their computer issues. My wife, who could learn a lot from listening to the program, can't stand her.
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