If my machine had the symptoms this one has, I would do the works:
BIOS flash & turn on BIOS virus protection,
Boot sector cleaning,
partitions removal/ format,
Free Zone Alarm firewall w. ask turned on....
...all done while keeping the machine off the net.
... and the presently existing data would worry me to no end...
db
Tony B wrote:
We're really beginning to stray here with all this talk of rare BIOS
and boot sector viruses. And now a question about backups.
Disk imaging is the way to go, with some level of compression to save
space. Ghost, Acronis, and many freeware apps will do this. They all
have basic Windows PE cds that will boot enough of an OS to reinstall
the images (Windows Preinstallation Environment). Some of these are
further based around BartPE (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/).
Anyway, probably the most important thing about system backups is that
you keep your C (system) drive backed up daily, preferably without
intervention. Make it a smaller partition than the others so you can
just image it to a second physical drive. Do full monthly images also,
and swap at least two backup drives so that one is off-premises at all
times.
What is the "best" generic recovery utility boot device and program these days??
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