I agree. Try to disinfect before you toast your computers. If you cannot you may have no other choice.

good stuff. Thanks for the reply!

Hello all,

I am currently in my second year of college and i was wondering what you all think about what type of degree to get from a school that does not offer a network security degree. I have talked to many people on this topic and i have people on both sides. I am just wondering what it would be wise to major in for a position in network security. More specifically i am leaning toward pen-testing because i cannot get enough of it. From doing tests in my own lab to reading forums and books on exploits, techniques, etc. i feel like sleeping gets in my way of learning haha. Anyways what do you guys think? Computer Science or something else such as business administration or something?

Thanks in advance
jakx

nice! haha....well i guess i give you credit for your enthusiasm...probably not the best/smartest way to try and learn though. Try grabbing some books for starters.

I used backtrack 2 for a little while as a everyday OS and i did not seem to have too many problems. I was not doing a whole lot outside of pentesting though. I guess it really just depends on what you want to be doing. I now have switched to just the BT usb like RoleReversal but its up to you.

Try it and if you dont like it switch back.   

hahaha aww man i was looking foward to meeting my Jedi Master!?     

Good advice btw...

Find out what you like to do. that is a very broad question. For a solid foundation I would learn how TCP/IP works and learn a few programming languages such as python and perl.

Just finished doing the same thing. Here is very simple instructions that may help. Check out the other links too. 

http://n00bhacker.blogspot.com/2008/01/creating-ext2-partition-to-save-changes.html

oh my......