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| Thread ID: 107999 | 2010-03-10 06:01:00 | Virus Suggestions For Work Experience Newbie | The Hitcher (14826) | Press F1 |
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| 865616 | 2010-03-10 06:01:00 | Our company has taken on a pleasant young man for 80 hours work experience in IT and given me the task of teaching him some hardware and software skills. So far he has spent 3 days with me. The first day was just mucking around installing XP and Win7 and showing him some of the more advanced features of the O/S's and basically finding out his knowledge level. Day 2 we completely dismantled and cleaned his rig that he'd brought in, added a 600 watt PSU and threw in a spare 8800GT video card I had lying around. He also added some more RAM. Today I had threw him in the deep end and had him dismantle a Compaq laptop down to the very last part and then put it back together again. The goal being that the laptop worked before he started but would it work after he assembled it. In the end it wasn't a bad effort for 7 hours work. He had 6 screws left over and the laptop, while powering up, would not boot. We left it at that - for now. Time to go home. Before he comes in again I'd like to infect a spare machine with a virus or two and I was hoping that the good people of PressF1 could make some suggestions on some reasonably benign viruses I could use. Names not links would probably be best :nerd: Other teaching suggestions also welcome. I'm new to newbies. |
The Hitcher (14826) | ||
| 865617 | 2010-03-10 06:20:00 | Use Internet Explorer 6 and surf porn websites. And what are "benign viruses"? Something like "TightVNC" which is a legitimate program but behaves suspiciously just because it allows one computer to connect to the other? |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 865618 | 2010-03-10 06:34:00 | He's 17 so probably doesn't need encouragement regarding porn I would think. Though using IE6 at some warez sites might be an idea ... My definition of a benign virus would be someone that doesn't damage the O/S to the point of needing a repair install or reinstall. |
The Hitcher (14826) | ||
| 865619 | 2010-03-10 06:37:00 | Our company has taken on a pleasant young man for 80 hours work experience in IT Before he comes in again I'd like to infect a spare machine with a virus or two Are you nuts? Why not just wait - I get PCs with malware all the time, I sure don't have to go around deliberately downloading the things. In fact betcha his machine is already infested. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 865620 | 2010-03-10 06:52:00 | It does sound nuts I guess. I was surprised to find his machine clean as a whistle. He uses MSE and Malwarebytes. I don't see many infected machines coming through work. Most of our work is corporate gear being upgraded or being held for asset management so I'll need to use the spare machine he installed XP Pro SP2 on. |
The Hitcher (14826) | ||
| 865621 | 2010-03-10 07:05:00 | You want to install "Personal Security" ;) Let's just say you'll have to help him remove the darn thing :p |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 865622 | 2010-03-10 07:22:00 | put him on the internet with IE6 and no AV. tell him to click everything that pops up :-) |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 865623 | 2010-03-10 07:25:00 | Altho depending on what sites you go to, most sites are dropping support for IE6. So, IE 6 may not bring up anything anyway | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 865624 | 2010-03-10 07:32:00 | One thing you can try - On a course I went on ages ago, one of the tests was the instructor took a working PC, then "altered" a few things so it wouldn't boot - You had to find all the faults, and get it working again , Bit like turning up at a persons place and the PC wont start - diagnose, locate and replace the parts . Some examples: *Faulty RAM *PSU damaged or Blown *Failed or damaged HDD *Wiring from the front panel not right on the header (dont laugh- Seen it when so called Home experts had a play) * One that had a few stumped until a deeper look, blown or wrong CPU . * BIOS changes You get the idea . I did this once when someone wanted a part time job with me, claimed he "knew it all" -- Setup a old PC beforehand - told him what he needed to do, any spare parts were on the other work bench he may require - went and made a cuppa, came back and :eek: WTF -- total strip down . Fault was blown RAM . ;) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 865625 | 2010-03-10 09:58:00 | Thanks for some good ideas. They will come in handy in the coming weeks. The nastiest app I can think of that can slow a PC to a crawl and occasionally cause it to stop responding is an old Norton AV version. I'll have him attempt to uninstall it ... |
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