Re: Urgent!!! My computer seems to be hacked, pls HELP!!!

Randy Yates <yates@xxxxxxxx> writes:

I've been wondering lately if there's some God-send utility that would
track installs for the purpose of alleviating the pain of such
reinstalls.

The intricacies you cite are among the reasons manual compile and
installation is troublesome.

On the linux platform anyway, Package managers (emerge, yum, rpm, apt)
attempt to be the god-send utility. A Gentoo linux user would hardly
stop himself from yelling "Emerge!" and running down the street as a
solution. In Gentoo, you can emerge almost anything you might want to
run. Of course you have to wait for it to compile which is painful
for large pacakages. But the source code basis of it all makes the
dependencies work remarkably nicely for rebuilding.

If you have a distro with a nice enough package manager, reinstalling
becomes a task of running a script of package manager commands to get
all the packages you want, restoring a known good backup of /home, and
a known-good backup of /etc.

But folks struggling with their first linux systems and navigating a
confusing mess of documentation on the net all referring to different
distributions and older versions of software are unlikely to have a
clean, easy to restore system, it's true! And windows users... oy.
Unless you have a slipstream installation CD made or a Ghost image
backup that you can absolutely trust, reinstalling and transferring
data is a royal PITA and well beyond the knowledge of the users who
are most in need to doing such a reinstall.

Best Regards,
--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/
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