Am I missing anything? They don't know what OS is on the two computers. They want to link them to one dial-up internet connection in the desktop and share via WiFi D-Link cards to a laptop. I'm not sure if it is a Ad-hoc setup or if they have a access point.

This is what I have.

1st CD-
FireFox 1.0
best XPIs saved
Thunderbird 0.9
AntiVir Personal (free) plus latest vdf
Windows XP SP2 Network install
Windows 2000 SP4 Network install
Hijackthis
Adaware SE Personal
Analog X (proxy server)
Superscan 2.04 (planethack edition)
CWShredder
Spybot S&D (but I don't believe in this to do the job by itself)

Other CDs -
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation disk
Windows 95 SR2.5 w/ USB disk
Windows 2000 Professional disk
Office 97 Professional disk
Office 2000 Professional disks 1 & 2
(2) Knoppix disks
BartPE disk

I don't have XP Pro or Windows 98/SE/ME disks at home. I have Windows 2003 Server disks but I don't think it will do any good.

Also I'll take my Libretto 110ct with an ORiNOCO Gold and netstumbler.

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Did I mention that is is my bosses computers in his home and that I hate making house calls. Since I am going to the company christmas party which is close I said I'd do it.

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I like having Registry Mechanic with me in addition to Ad-Aware. You prolly won't need it, though.

And wtf ... your BOSS can't afford broadband and a normal network setup instead of this dial-up sharing nonsense??

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meastie beastie

I was just thinking the same thing.

Also, I have WinXP Pro and the SP2 disk if you end up needing it.

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I had hoped to get there 1.5 hrs before the party but a late start made it only 40 mins.

He had a Time Warner Cable Modem when I looked at it. He didn't know the difference. Most places in the Timbuktu sticks can't get cable modems can they?

All I had to do was add a UTP Cat-5 to make the POS D-Link the PAT router. I did MAC address copying and everything was setup in 5 minutes.

I used Adaware on the desktop (it was direct plugged into the web) and found 589 bad files, 5 bad processes running, 1 VX2 variant. I ran CWshredder to get rid of CoolWebSearch. The laptop had only 150 files no VX2.

I didn't get to add SP4 on the Windows 2000 SP3 machine nor SP2 on the Windows XP Pro SP1 laptop. Time just ran out.

The thing I forgot was a personal firewall. SP2 would have been okay for XP but Windows 2000's built-in doesn't make the cut.

All said and done I think the OS's should have been reinstalled because of all the spyware. I hate working on people's computer for them.

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When a friend of mine complained about her computer being slow, I ran AdAware on it and it found more than 10,000 bad objects.

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meastie beastie

Did you get a screen shot? I think that almost beats the one on arstechnica.com

If it get past 1000 I say it is a manditory re-install or just a switch. I installed FC2 on my wifes computer and all was well until she wanted to play the Sims.

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Gentoo Linux v - 1.4

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