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Re: Imaging Operating Systems
From: Maarten <fulldisc () ultratux org>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 17:29:41 +0200
On Thursday 27 May 2004 16:09, Nick FitzGerald wrote:
Michael Schaefer <mbs () mistrealm com> wrote:We are building a Windows test system, to try out tool bars, spy ware, malware and trojans on. Once we learn what we need to know, we obviously want to get rid of the junk quickly and cleanly. I keep hearing suggestions about having a "clean image" to transfer onto the computer. Can anyone send some details?The most common approaches to this are the use of virtual machines (VMWare, Virtual PC, etc) and drive image backups (Ghost, etc). There are pros and cons to each and common pitfalls and issues to consider carefully when setting this all up...
This is an interesting thread... But out of curiosity, is it also possible to do backup / restores using readily available linux tools? I'd like to be able to do something like running dd over a network connection, or tar, or whatever other tool. In that case, a bootable CD is all you need. But I'm unsure how to do that... Maarten -- Yes of course I'm sure it's the red cable. I guarante[^%!/+)F#0c|'NO CARRIER _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- Re: Imaging Operating Systems defiance (May 26)
- Re: Imaging Operating Systems Ondrej Krajicek (May 27)
- Re: Imaging Operating Systems Curt Purdy (May 28)
- Re: Imaging Operating Systems Frank Knobbe (May 28)
- Re: Imaging Operating Systems Epic (May 27)
- Re: Imaging Operating Systems James Riden (May 26)
- RE: Imaging Operating Systems Lionel Hendricks (May 26)
- Re: Imaging Operating Systems Sam Sharpe (May 26)
- Re: Imaging Operating Systems vertex (May 26)
- Re: Imaging Operating Systems Nick FitzGerald (May 27)
- Re: Imaging Operating Systems Maarten (May 27)
- Re: Imaging Operating Systems Kevin Connolly (May 27)
- Re: Imaging Operating Systems Maarten (May 27)
- Re: Imaging Operating Systems Ondrej Krajicek (May 27)
- Re: Imaging Operating Systems Maarten (May 27)
- Re: Imaging Operating Systems Volker Tanger (May 28)
- RE: Imaging Operating Systems Phillip R. Paradis (May 28)
- Re: Imaging Operating Systems Nick FitzGerald (May 28)
- Re: Imaging Operating Systems Maarten (May 27)