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Related, there is a free trial of Windows XP Embedded which is also small (designed to be booted from a flash card). It can be downloaded from Micro$oft site.

No other processes should be running when doing a rootkit scan. The only things that seem suspicious are the multiple .tmp files in the temp directory. Boot to a command prompt and delete those, if they still exist. Otherwise everything is fine.

This will definitely work, many schools and other public computers use this system.

Give it a different OS version from API? Redirect domain to 0.0.0.0 via HOSTS?

Use the BIOS int 13 disk services. There are several that can be used, but this one comes to mind: Loop through from drive 80 onwards, this essentially scans for valid drives. Once a drive is found, it can be determined to be removable or fixed with another function.The byte at 0040:0075 is also "number of fixed disk drives", according to the IBM PC AT Technical Reference Manual. Another alternative is to check for drives via hardware I/O through the ports starting at 1F0 (primary IDE controller) and 170 (secondary IDE controller)

I don't think that can be done. You need an account with their company to use their services.

You should also chkdsk it once in a while, lost clusters can take up quite a bit of free space. I just clear out the dllcache and prefetch once in a while.

Just ignore... your IP address is logged on every website you visit anyway. If you're really that scared, use a proxy or a chain of proxies. Torrents and eMule are still considered "safe"... although it does depend on where you live.

It certainly would be.

Expect this to also be detected as a virus soon...

Well, I'm working on an ESDI_506.PDR with 48-bit LBA...

Something that big deserves to be torrented instead of put on a server, unless your connection is decently fast uploading and you can serve it from your own machine.

Maybe CPU overheats?

Video driver?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;324767

Beware of startups originating in win.ini and system.ini I have seen this before, a trojan is loaded from a line in system.ini or win.ini and is called rundII (notice the I instead of L) which then proceeds to load explorer, "wrapping" around it.

I see... I didn't know this since I don't use directly connected dial-up modem.

^ Has read too much from Link21

There is only one line in setupp.ini that controls what product key it accepts.Of course, you will need the correct product key.

Any "Emulate SATA as ATA" option?

Does it matter?

Search by filesize... files that big aren't easy to hide...

- acrobat reader 6.04 (I have all the updates with me). No. Use a stripped-down 5.x version - less bloated and can view almost all PDFs already. - DivX 5.2.1 Free (I have the setup with me). Recommend ffdshow universal Codec - Flash Player 9.0 Free (I have the setup standalone with me). Go. The setup can be stripped down considerably to just a single batch file to copy and register an OCX. - Shockwave Player 10 Free (I have the setup standalone with me). Go. See above note regarding FLash. - Latest version of "HOSTS" Free (http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm) No. - Nero InCD Reader Free 4.3.2.0.1 Free (I have the setup with me). No. - IrfanView 3.98 Free (http://www.irfanview.com/) No. - MS .NET 1.1 + Updates (I have files). No. Never. - MS .NET 2.0 No. Never. - MS IE 6.0SP1 Full Install for Win98SE + Latest Cumulative Security Update for Win98SE (11/07/06 ?). Ok... I guess. But I'd prefer to use IE 5.5 - MS DAC 2.8 + Update. Don't know what programs use this, so No. - MS Media Player 9.0 + Updates. No. Prefer an older version. - MSN Messenger 7.0 for Win98SE (I have latest build). No. - All Free MS Office Viewers (I have all the latest setups). No. - MS VB Runtimes 1.0 + 2.0 + 3.0 + 4.0 + 5.0SP2 + 6.0SP6 (I have all files). No. Never. - MS Win Installer 2.0 Maybe... - MS Win Script 5.6 for Win98SE. No. What use would this be? - QuikTime 6 for Win98SE (I have latest build). No. See above recommendation regarding DivX - Real Player Free Gold 10.5 (I have the setup). No. See above recommendation regarding DivX - SpyWareBlaster 3.51 Free (http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/). No. (URL is already a discouragement) - StartUp CPL 2.8 Free (http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml). No. We have something called MSCONFIG and REGEDIT. - MSJVM 3.8.0.5 No. - SunJava2RTSE2015007 (www.sun.com). NO! - WinAmp Full 5.24 (http://www.winamp.com/) An older version is recommended, 2.x to be exact - WinImage 8.0 (http://www.winimage.com/). No... - Music Match JukeBox 9.0 for Win98SE (I have latest build). No... - WinRar 3.51 (http://www.rarsoft.com/download.htm). No. See comment below regarding archivers - WinZip 10.0 (www.winzip.com) No. See comment below regarding archivers - WinZip Self Extractor 2.2 (www.winzip.com) No. Recommend 7-zip : RAR, CAB, ZIP, LZH, and more, for free and Tiny (under 1Mb). - WS_FTP 5.0.8 LE Free for Win98SE (I have the setup). Windows comes with FTP.EXE, and also see below recommendation regarding Download Manager. - Yahoo Messenger 7.5 (I have standalone setup). No. - Zone Alarm Free for Win98SE 6.1.744.001 (I have latest setup. New version 6.5 does not support Win98 !). No... why'd you need firewall on a 9x anyway - AVG Free 7.1.394a763 (http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5#avg-free). No. - Free Pascal 2.02 (www.freepascal.org). WTF? No. GCC would've been a better candidate... - MS DirectX 9.0c Full Redistributable Package of June 2006 Edition (I have setup with me). Go. Additional recommendation: - FlashGet v1.50 A very good quality of Download Manager. Avoid the newer versions.

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