Corinne Higbee
BGRCC Bulletin for March 25, 2010 - Supplement
A great big thank you to all of the volunteers we have had this year. You have made things easier for a lot of new computer users. Monday, Wednesday and Friday sessions for tutorials have been well attended. We are discussing having them again next year at possible different times so the volunteers can have lunch. :>) Doug will send more information on this later.
We have enjoyed a SIG on photography by Jim Antley and he has consented to do the web pages for us at bgrcc.com. We look forward to seeing the new changes in store for us in the coming season.
John Abbott has volunteered to have a special interest group (SIG) on Friday afternoons from 3:15 until 6:15. John is our Linus geek but promises to include open source materials that are applicable to all PC users. Of course he said that he will help everyone over come their fear of using Linux. I can tell you from my experience in being a new user, that it is easy to use, and of course it is quicker and safer than any other Operating System I have used. It is all I have on my laptop.
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A big thank you for the cards and gifts sent our way. It was a real surprise and will be used by us on computer stuff.
EHUGS from Gary Bernier, Doug Peace and Corinne Higbee.
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Here is some information I hope you will not need but just in case you do it is good to have to save a lot of repair cost.
AVG Rescue CD
A powerful toolset for the rescue & repair of infected machines.
The AVG Rescue CD is a powerful must-have toolkit for the rescue and repair of infected machines. It provides essential utilities for system administrators and other IT professionals and includes the following features:
* Comprehensive administration toolset
* System recovery from virus and spyware infections
* Suitable for recovering MS Windows and Linux operating systems (FAT32 and NTFS file systems)
* Ability to perform a clean boot from CD or USB stick
Free support and service for paid license holders of any AVG product
* FAQ and Free Forum self-help support for AVG Free users
Key technologies
* Anti-virus: protection against viruses, worms and trojans
* Anti-spyware: protection against spyware, adware and identity-theft
* Administration toolkit: system recovery tools
The AVG Rescue CD is essentially a portable version of AVG Anti-Virus supplied through Linux distribution. It can be used in the form of a bootable CD or bootable USB flash drive to recover your computer when the system cannot be loaded normally, such as after an extensive or deep-rooted virus infection. In short, the AVG Rescue CD enables you to fully remove infections from an otherwise inoperable PC and render the system bootable again.
Apart from the usual AVG functions (malware detection and removal, updates from internet or external device, etc.), the AVG Rescue CD also contains the following set of
administration tools:
* Midnight Commander - a two-panel file manager
* Windows Registry Editor - simple registry editor for more experienced users
* TestDisk - powerful hard drive recovery tool
* Ping - to test the availability of network resources (servers, domains, IP addresses)
* Common Linux programs and services - vi text editor, OpenSSH daemon, ntfsprogs etc.
Free of charge
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Downloads
Download the CD or USB stick version you need.
Download AVG Rescue CD (for CD creation)
Download AVG Rescue CD (for USB stick)
View the AVG Rescue CD Online Guide
View the AVG Rescue CD Knowledge Base topics
* What you get
* System requirements
* Support & Download