Hi,

Unfortunately I am our unpaid office IT person. I also am lacking on the IT knowledge front.

2 particular ladies in our office seem to get virus/spy ware that causes major problems to their systems. I have CA installed and it doesn’t seem to do much.

Anyway I try to manually remove whatever new nasty they have and often it takes forever or in the end I can’t get rid of it.
So I was wondering if I should do a fresh install for them and make a ghost (or whatever it’s called) so I can just wipe their systems in future and reinstall with ease.

I know of Norton Ghost (But generally try to stay away from their bloaty programs)
Is Acronis good?

What programs do you guys recommend?

Many thanks.

Ghost is what we use.

Make sure they have no rights and use limited accounts. Restrict everything possible. If you just have a couple of systems at work try Windows SteadyState. Seems fairly good and stopping retards from being retarded from the looks of it, but I haven't actually used it before. Looks sort of like Hard Drive Sheriff. Anyway, better off preventing it rather than having to fix it..

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Norton Ghost is non-bloaty. Fits on a floppy iirc. Make an image with it, you'll never look back. I make images of everything now, it makes life a breeze.

Some good ideas, thanks guys.

They probably all are administrator logins now I think of it. I will remove that from them in future. (However that is done..)

Slap them in the face every time they do something stupid.

Acronis True Image Echo ftw! Bare metal restores are the way to go, make 1 image then you can restore it to any machine you like.

Ghost here.

I bet you they get their spyware through "free" solitaire / poker / mini-game downloads.

Personally, I can't stand Acronis. I'd suggest you check out Shadowprotect by StorageCraft www.storagecraft.com.

It's a very useful little tool, both for server backups and archival (supports full hardware-independent bare metal restores) and they also have an IT version which is great for imaging something on the fly.

Acronis was available for $10 last week on a special offer, not sure if it's still valid.

^ It is

Acronis is good