RE: Infecting OEM Images

["Willy, Andrew" <AWilly () esmil net>]

That restore partition rather than CD caught us by suprise in a Ghost
deployment fiasco.  I won't bore you with details but will summarize the
conversation.

Guy A: "Hrm. I guess this image ain't gonna work on these workstations."

Guy B: "Better start over."

Guy A: "Yep.  Let me have the ever handy, really useful, incredibly reliable
restore CD."

Guy B: "I thought you had it?"



Try to explain that to level one Toshiba tech support.  

Andrew








-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Seltzer [mailto:larry () larryseltzer com]
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 3:09 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] Infecting OEM Images


A reader who just bought a new Dell system noted to me that they don't send
Windows disks anymore; instead they store images of the OOBE disk on a
hidden partition. 
















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