Re: Bummer

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 02:25:21 -0500, Polychromic <macecil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 23:36:12 GMT, Optician Dragon
><dragonlensman1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>but I don't know how Norton allowed itself to be turned off.
>
>Norton takes a couple minutes to activate when you reboot. If the fired
>guy rebooted the computer and immediately went to a site with a malicious
>exploit active, that would be all it takes. (This is one of the problems
>with Norton's bloat.)
I doubt he did anything that dumb, besides I don't think you can
reboot, get the browser fired up and hit the site before Norton
activates, since it seems to have a higher priority, i.e. other progs
won't finish loading until it's going. But since it's a part of
SystemWorks, I agree with the bloat. Is their Corporate Antivirus
stand-alone any more efficient?
>
>>Kicking myself for not Ghosting new images after the last F&I.
>>I do back up the data weekly, but only to a second PW-protected drive.
>>Maybe not secure enough. Maybe I should get a couple of removable
>>backup drives? Would Flash drives be considered reliable enough? The
>>actual data, not counting program amounts to only 250 Mb or so for
>>both. Heck I should just use CD's.
>>My guess is the stored image would still be good from the other drive,
>>but it is too old.
>
>If you have another machine networked you could sync the data to it daily,
>then do backups to a burner weekly or however often you wanted on that
>machine. There's even a free program that can do that kind of syncing of
>the data called SyncBack. Set up 7 target folders and 7 schedules so it
>backs up the data every day to the appropriate folder. Pretty simple as
>long as you remember to burn the data to discs on a routine schedule. Of
>course, you only have to burn one of the days as long as its data is
>intact.
We have seven computers sharing an internet connection and three more
that are not online at all in the exam rooms, as our Doctor uses a
computerized eye exam program. I have all file sharing off. There are
only two puters that have any sensitive data at all, the others are
used for miscellaneous duties and the one in my office is for lens
research and Halo. :-)
Both units with the sensitive data have CD-RW drives.
I have seen a program somewhere that will allow you to change the
order of loading of your programs, does that work?
--
Optician Dragon
-=UDIC=-
"There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool following it."
Larry Niven
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