| Senlis said: Another thing, if you use Ghose/Acronis/EaseUS to back up your hard drive and you accidentally back it up with a virus on it, you're screwed. |
Left the thread for a little while here so-
Selenis- Thanks for helping me clearify nortons antivirus from norton's ghost. Guess that got missed.
To what you said above, backup drives can hold more than one copy of everything. I have a back up saved for every week for the last month (I just delete the oldest ones once a month or so). So if you end up installing or saving a version with a bug just delete it and reinstall an earlier version?
To the original poster. As someone who has to have a working computer all of the time for business, I'll say it again. A back up harddrive is the only "100%" was to make sure you don't get screwed.
I have tried my share of anti-virus, spyware, and other programs, and at some point they were all beaten by the newest bugs. I view them as unreliable, and as system resource hogs that interfere with the functioning of other networked programs (like the one I use for work).
If you do use one, for God's sake please don't pay money for it, and just know that you are not really safe from losing your data.
