Sunday, December 14, 2008

Removing virus from system volume

The system volume is used to do a recovery on your machine. If the virus you machine received has been saved you must delete the system volume in order to delete it. To do this follow these steps:

1. You must be logged in with administrator rights
2. Right click on my computer and go to properties
3. Click on the System Restore Tab and Check the box Turn off System Restore
4. Follow the prompts and restart the machine (this deletes the system volume)
5. When the machine restarts go back in and do steps 2 and 3 unchecking Turn off System Restore so a new point will be created.

This should take care of the virus problem.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Windows 2009/Antivirus 2009

This is a nasty virus that effects machines either through going to a website or through an e-mail. What it does is it will pretend to be an antivirus software that will scan your machine for viruses. If possible when you see it, do the CTRL + ALT + DEL and cancel the webpage that is currently open. If you happen to become infected and need to remove this nasty virus please use this website with great information to remove it. http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/malware-removal/uninstall-antivirus-2009

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Welcome

I'd like to welcome any librarians or tech staff to my blog. I hope this will be a place to provide information for maintaining public and staff computers in a Library environment. Please feel free to post questions, answers and suggestions to this blog. My emphasis will be on locking down Public Machines, Microsoft Office Products, CybraryN, Deep Freeze, and other software that our Cooperative finds usefull to libraries. WELCOME!!!