Maintenance Help

Kevski5000 · 6 Jul 2017 at 08:07

hi
Sorry if this is on the wrong thread etc but i could do with some ideas/suggestions

I am trying to teach a few people about IT maintenance and want to make up a PC that's full of crap that they need to clean up, so does anyone know the best place I can find, adware, some basic malware and suggestions on what software would generally bog down a PC so I can show them and get them to remove a pretty ****** up machine?

I've seen so many that I've fixed up in the past but actually trying to slow down a computer is something I've never done before lol

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

AHarvey · 6 Jul 2017 at 09:36

best bet would be to look at adding things like browser tool bars etc that also install random **** on to the system.

You could also use this list of threats and see what you can download and install.

skyripper · 6 Jul 2017 at 10:08

Install windows XP, give it to a old person, pick it up in a month.
Job done.

Broady21.pb · 7 Jul 2017 at 08:57

skyripper said:
Install windows XP, give it to a old person, pick it up in a month.
Job done.

+1

skyripper · 7 Jul 2017 at 09:22

If you really want to do this, use a Virtual machine platform, and do not let it connect to the same network as any other machines on your network.

Then just go and do all those stupid things you know people do - turn off windows update fairly soon after installation, go looking for "cheap" or "free" software, adobe updaters from belarus, press the big green download buttons, browse a few porn sites and click on the popups, install every add on and gadget offered to you. You'll soon have something horrible.

The key thing is to DMZ this crapbox from anything you care about. Use virtual NICs, snapshot the thing regularly (so if you get something particularly nasty you can rollback) and use those snapshots after each "training clean-up session". And make sure everything else powered up at the time is either not connected to the same network or firewalled and virus protected upto the hilt.

Semple · 7 Jul 2017 at 09:43

skyripper said:
If you really want to do this, use a Virtual machine platform, and do not let it connect to the same network as any other machines on your network.

Then just go and do all those stupid things you know people do - turn off windows update fairly soon after installation, go looking for "cheap" or "free" software, adobe updaters from belarus, press the big green download buttons, browse a few porn sites and click on the popups, install every add on and gadget offered to you. You'll soon have something horrible.

The key thing is to DMZ this crapbox from anything you care about. Use virtual NICs, snapshot the thing regularly (so if you get something particularly nasty you can rollback) and use those snapshots after each "training clean-up session". And make sure everything else powered up at the time is either not connected to the same network or firewalled and virus protected upto the hilt.

i can just see this going disastrously wrong for someone who doesn't know what they're doing. Before they know it, they've had a cryptolocker virus infect every machine on their network.

something daft already!! · 7 Jul 2017 at 10:07

Give it to my son's girlfriend for five minutes lol. I suggest searching for free films and free software and clicking the dodgiest looking links.

skyripper · 7 Jul 2017 at 14:03

Semple said:
i can just see this going disastrously wrong for someone who doesn't know what they're doing. Before they know it, they've had a cryptolocker virus infect every machine on their network.

I believe that is called Darwinism

Confused Stu · 9 Jul 2017 at 09:12

skyripper said:
I believe that is called Darwinism

If "Digital Darwinism" isn't a real phrase, we NEED to make it one!

Raumarik · 9 Jul 2017 at 10:34

skyripper said:
Install windows XP, give it to a old person, pick it up in a month.
Job done.

If you want faster results give it to a millennial.

Kevski5000 · 12 Jul 2017 at 13:29

Thanks for the suggestions - I've spent so long not ******* up my machine that I can't even do it on purpose lol. It feels wrong, Putting all this **** on a computer feels more dirty and uncomfortable than it would be watching porn with your mother (author note - I understand that those from Norfolk, England or Arkansaw, USA will not understand why watching porn with your mother is weird or uncomfortable)

Whoop · 12 Jul 2017 at 17:28

Based on a machine I met this week... search Google for free YouTube downloading software, install one that looks pretty and then watch as it installs Teamviewer while you sleep and people in China connect for a nosy around.
(not actual advice - don't do it!! I had to burn every file on the drive)