In spite of the firewall and anti-virus programs
installed, he managed to infect my wife's (XP SP3) desktop with a plethora of
viruses. AVG cannot clear all of the viruses and my wife is not ready to cut
over to Linux, so I will have to wipe her drives and re-install XP.
The plan is to move her personal files over to an external drive on the USB port
before wiping the hard drives. The options are: move the files while working
from her desktop, move the files over the network using a Vista machine, or move
the files over the network from a Linux machine.
Working from the Linux machine, I don't have to worry about it getting infected,
and if I partition the USB drive as ext3, I don't have to worry about the drive
getting infected, either. If I move the files using a Vista machine, it's
firewall and anti-virus software may detect and block infected files during the
transfer process.