Over the last few months I have seen and heard or quite a few computers infected with the "Conficker" worm ( also know as Downup, Downadup and Kido). It is truly a nasty piece of software that ingrains itself so far into the system that it has been impossible to remove from any of the systems that I had not personally secured myself with the steps I outline here. That one machine the person had actually clicked on the "yes" button to install the worm. Luckily it was with the non-administrative account and I was able isolate the files and remove them.

I did some research around the web on so called removal instructions and came across Microsofts...

Windows Tips

This is an example of how to deploy firefox remotely to your windows based domain client machines using psexec with proxy settings. First you need to download the latest 7-zip from here: www.7-zip.org after you have that installed find your firefox installer package. As of this articles writing the name of this file was “Firefox Setup 2.0.0.3.exe”. Right-click on it and choose the following...

I was able to install the latest version on Windows XP (2007) using the -S switch after the installer package.

Like so...

setup7x.exe -S

Related Links:

http://szone.berlinwall.org/Software/win/wpbd

Here are a few command line switches that I have worked out...