RE: ridiculous situation

I suggest you back all five up completely. A disk image is the best. then see if management will let you get one machine like the others and either
1. rebuild them, one at a time, replacing each machine one at a time as you get a build completed/tested (image that thing as well) or 2. drop each machine image on a new drive in the spare machine as a duplicate and hack the piss outta it until you know what their holes, trojans, etc are.

Personally, I'd save the companies machines/ass<et>s by doing the rebuilds first and THEN use the spare machine to hack piss outta the images.

You could always justify the new machine to a spare in the case of a catastrophic equipment failure on one of the old machines.

:-)

D. Weiss Received on Mon Dec 2 14:43:57 2002