I had to fix a computer for a friend. He got viruses on the computer and I have to do a destructive wipe and completely reinstall a fresh copy of windows.
This is not the first time it happened and I am looking for a way to cut down the time it takes to fix this thing when it happens again in the future. I'm getting really tired of having to wipe this computer every few months and reinstalling and completely updating everything.
I have another friend that has the same problem, but I sold him my old compaq, which has a recovery partion on it, so I can just do the destructive wipe from the RP, which takes much less time than if I were to do it from a disk.
What I really want to know is that is there a way that once I fix this one computer and have windows fully updated, is there a program that I can use to create something like a recovery partition so that I can fix it much faster and easier than before?
I know that the issue is that he keeps getting viruses. He does have anti viruses software, not one that i particularly like, since it keeps letting the same thing through. He keeps getting those fake antivirus programs like "MS antirvirus" or "antivirus 08" on his PC, which then messes it up so I have to fix it. I've never had this problem on my own pc. He uses the free antivirus suite that comes with his verizon subscription (Verizons web site doesn't even list who provides the av engine). I know the best way to stop this from happening is to prevent him from going to bad web sites
, which the WoT toolbar helps alot with this problem.
As a secondary question, what antivirus programs catch these fake av programs and is there any other programs that actually can remove them?
Edit: I forgot to mention that the pc is running Windows XP
Linear Mode
