Question for the peanut gallery.....
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techrecoveryOk, this isn't a request for support. This isn't some idiot that's never posted here before. This is a legitimate question for my peers.
What do you guys have or suggest to have on a usb key (256mb in size) for day to day operations? I currently have the newest avg, firefox (gonna set it up to run off of the key), some of the older coolwebsearch stuff, some spyware removers, various s/n's and some other nonessentials. What more would you add to this? Right now, I've got quite a bit of space, and I can always get a bigger one, especially with my paychecks.
What do you guys have or suggest to have on a usb key (256mb in size) for day to day operations? I currently have the newest avg, firefox (gonna set it up to run off of the key), some of the older coolwebsearch stuff, some spyware removers, various s/n's and some other nonessentials. What more would you add to this? Right now, I've got quite a bit of space, and I can always get a bigger one, especially with my paychecks.
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Date: 2005-10-24 08:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-24 08:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-24 08:40 pm (UTC)Mcafee's Stinger
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I usually keep a copy of Acrobat Reader hanging around
Most of my power tools are on a BartPE disc, including some custom update scripts. I also keep a Corporate Multiboot CD hanging around, in order to run Memtest 86+.
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Date: 2005-10-24 08:43 pm (UTC)I've also got Ethereal, NMAP, and a couple of other things related to that.
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Date: 2005-10-24 08:57 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-10-24 09:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-24 09:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-24 09:09 pm (UTC)Stinger lives at this URL:
http://vil.mcafeesecurity.com/vil/averttools.asp
My commonly used programs are all on a BartPE cd, and include:
Stinger
Mcafee A/V for Win32
Ghost Corporate Ed. (including Ghostcast)
A "lite" version of Ad-Ware Pro
and the rest of the preinstalled plugins.
For machines that won't (or can't) run BartPE, I use his older Corporate Mod BootCD, with a few additional widgets that I find useful (Such as fdimage and some disk images...)
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Date: 2005-10-24 08:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-24 08:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-24 09:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-24 08:46 pm (UTC)Pest Patrol
Macafee Antivirus (licensed to our campus)
the latest DATs
Stinger
Microsoft Anti-spyware
Firefox
Itunes
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Date: 2005-10-24 08:49 pm (UTC)Other stuff I generally have are both Ad-Aware and Spybot, along with up-to-date defs. HijackThis is a must-have too. You'll also want WinRAR or some equivalent, for those rare cases where there's no zip utility. Possibly also some of the more critical/recent Windows patches.
If you feel like getting more fancy, then make your USB stick bootable or bring a couple of floppies, along with rawwritewin and the disk images on the usb stick. Things like PartitionMagic, DriveImage, memtest86, drive diagnostic tools. If you expect to be dealing with 9x-based boxen, then a Win98 rescue disk won't go amiss. Bear in mind that anything before Win2k won't support USB natively, and so probably won't read your USB stick.
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Date: 2005-10-24 08:52 pm (UTC)Sounds like so far, I have almost everything you guys have recommended, minus a couple of things here and there.
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Date: 2005-10-24 08:56 pm (UTC)I'd use both ad-aware and spybot as often one will catch what the other misses.
Can't think of anything else... possibly some hardware diagnostic tools, but apart from that I think you're set (and I can't think of many cases when I've used hardware diags).
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Date: 2005-10-24 09:38 pm (UTC)Currently on my key drive:
Putty (SSH/Telnet client)
Linux/Windows/OS X VNC clients
OpenOffice
Firefox (OS X and PC versions)
Trillian
Adaware
Spybot
MS Antispyware
Spyware DR
Antivir
AVG
The main thing I use my keydrive for is vnc'ing in to my home machine from work (as I am now), so you might need different things on there.
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Date: 2005-10-24 09:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-24 10:01 pm (UTC)... oh wait... ... uh...
nm....
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Date: 2005-10-24 10:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-24 11:15 pm (UTC)FYI
Date: 2005-10-25 12:34 am (UTC)Re: FYI
Date: 2005-10-25 02:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-25 04:57 am (UTC)...Wait....
I do keep a stash of drivers for the more common NICs that Windows doesn't autodetect, though.
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Date: 2005-10-25 05:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-25 08:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-25 08:11 am (UTC)Still: For my compilation you'd need to have at least an 512mb Stick.
I also would recommand to have an mini-linux system on it so that you can burn a CD from which you can boot into Linux.
I have an mini-boot-CD in cheque-card-size in my pocket with an debian linux and editors and some software on it to recover data.
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Date: 2005-10-25 10:00 am (UTC)- A collection of MP3s (you never know when you're going to need to stick on the headphones and tune out the luser).
- Firefox and my Firefox bookmarks (essential for easy surfing from any desk).
- My ssh keys and a registry update containing all of my putty tunnels through the company's firewalls (essential for easy surfing from any desk).
- A timesheet template (hey, I want to get paid!)
- An overtime claim form (hey, I want to get paid some more!!)
- An expenses claim form (Guess why....).
- A .pst to which I move all personal emails (especially those which contain job descriptions, application forms or interview dates).
- A .pst to which I move 'special' emails (i.e. offensive jokes) from my boss (just in case he ever finds out about 1 through 7 and I need to convince him not to fire me).
I'm not sure that's exactly what you are looking for, but it will certainly make the days a little less tedious.no subject
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Date: 2005-10-31 03:04 pm (UTC)no subject
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