Re: OT: Best free Firewall, please??

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:50:14 -0400, Miss Crystal Light wrote:


5. Reconsider the usage of IE (optional) and OE (highly recommended).
Utilizing another browser application and e-mail provider can add to
the overall security of the OS.
Consider: Opera, FireFox or Seamonkey and PegasusMail, Thunderbird or
WLM.

I use the most updated FireFox as my browser and Mozilla Thunderbird
as my e-mail client. I also have Yahoo mail which I access through FF.

Good. Stay tuned for the release of IE8 :-)

9. Employ back-up application(s).
Windows XP Backup Made Easy
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/bott_03july14.mspx
Consider: Acronis, Casper or Norton Ghost and ERUNT.

This is where I am confused. Now when I backup, do I backup eveything
or just certain things?

Everything and/or incremental including an image of a 'clean' operating
system.

Will the program asked for a disk to be placed
inside the DVD/CD tray for the backup to be written to or where do the
backup go?

It is recommended to back-up to an external drive.

How often should one backup?

That depends, initially I'd say every other week may be adequate.

Also, of all the programs you
have listed above, which would you choose if you had to pick one and
why it over the others?

*I* would chose Acronis because of its support and reputation.
In addition, ERUNT is a freely available registry back-up, it runs in the
background without hogging resources and can be extremely useful - highly
recommended!

While I am thinking of this and it really has nothing to do with our
posts, but I am curious. Can a DVD be used as a Mega storage disk for
all kinds of files and things, or does it only work for something
video related?

External media such as DVD, CD and Thumb (Flash) Drives can be used for all
kinds of files and things.
.

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