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You create another user such as "Admin" and assign the user to administrator. Then you downgrade the user account. When your friend now logs in, some bad programs will fail as they need to make administrative privileges. When you need to make a change, you would log in as "Admin" and change the hosts file, for example.
When it comes to security, think of protective layers. The ISP, ISP modem, router, wireless, computer OS, etc.
I tend about 100 computers for non-technical business users. There is hardly any policy to speak of. My key learnings (lol, hard to not use corporate speak).
- users will install everything that is presented to them. button appears on screen to destroy all of civilization, they click, and deny later.
- once a system is compromised, it tends to get re-infected many times.
- many problems lie between keyboard and chair
- you get better at stupid computer tricks, and hopefully get rewarded
- you can never be 100% certain you removed every bad thing from the computer
Since you're willing to be his support in the future, you are responsible by default for this system. In your case it is a mission of mercy, and perfectly understandable.
BTW, some of the clever things going around actually install, then create a restore point. So if you only go back so far in restore, you'll put the bad guys back in charge. The other point is that when you have restore points, the av software has to check all of that too. This might be heresy, but I turn off system restore first, then check and remove.
When it comes to security, think of protective layers. The ISP, ISP modem, router, wireless, computer OS, etc.
I tend about 100 computers for non-technical business users. There is hardly any policy to speak of. My key learnings (lol, hard to not use corporate speak).
- users will install everything that is presented to them. button appears on screen to destroy all of civilization, they click, and deny later.
- once a system is compromised, it tends to get re-infected many times.
- many problems lie between keyboard and chair
- you get better at stupid computer tricks, and hopefully get rewarded
- you can never be 100% certain you removed every bad thing from the computer
Since you're willing to be his support in the future, you are responsible by default for this system. In your case it is a mission of mercy, and perfectly understandable.
BTW, some of the clever things going around actually install, then create a restore point. So if you only go back so far in restore, you'll put the bad guys back in charge. The other point is that when you have restore points, the av software has to check all of that too. This might be heresy, but I turn off system restore first, then check and remove.