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I don't find any relevant information of big lba tool being a malware.
I don't see either any utility for big lba tool as far as windows 2000 and eeepc are concerned.
For installation from usb devices, windows 2000 is supposed to be sp4 slipstreamed.
The lba issue only exists with windows 2000 versions prior to sp2 and, in these situation (assuming sp2 is already installed to the harddisk), it is enough to update to sp3 and to modify the appropriate registry value:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=305098
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Well I don't know brucine, Avast doesn't like that site at all. Which to me is one reason to be concern. And if your Windows 2000 has either SP3 or SP4, I haven't seen any reason to modify the registry at all. As if you put a drive larger than 137GB, Windows says it has to do something and then it tells you to reboot. Then you do and it reads and writes to it just fine in all of my experiences.
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I had to make a dedicated Avira filter as to keep it to yell at Radmin Server:
Radmin is not a virus/rootkit, but a legit remote desktop software (of course, whatever remote desktop software is a potential hazard).
Trying to retrieve pertinent security information, i didn't find anything concerning big lba tool...but the letters "lba" also describe at least a large family of rootkits, backdoors, trojans...
(http://www.sunbeltsecurity.com/search.a … FORID%3a11)
and a vicious dll
(http://www.fbmsoftware.com/spyware-net/ … _dll/1515/)
I even downloaded the Mcafee SiteAdvisor plugin
(http://www.siteadvisor.com/howitworks/index.html) saying, not speaking of the software itself, the big lba url as secure.
The conclusion seems to be that Avast merely sees a false positive, reacting to hazardous letters (and is only from plain curiosity, since i maintain the said software is useless).
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I had a go installing Windows 2000 using my old SP3 disc, and all went swimmingly. The only problems I found was that it needed to be fully updated before I could get AVG to install on it. That was pretty much my only speedbump.
Maverick, you said (a long time ago now, I know) you'd post about your post-install cleanup of Windows 2000. If you could run through what you did, that would be very useful indeed, as space is at a bit of a premium now on my poor 4G
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