Amit Sharma wrote:
Hi,
One of my friend has setup of 2 computers connected to a switch/ hub.
He does DTP work and hence has no other alternative than to use
windows as OS.
From past one week virus has made his life miserable. He got his
machines formatted twice but within a day or two they get infected
again because of the fact that he has to plug in his clients pen
drive, CD etc. for data backup, restore, etc.
He has a external hdd with him.
My Questions:
1. Can Coreldraw and Pagemaker be used on Linux using Wine? Is it
successful? What about fonts issue?
Yes, version 7.0 of pagemaker and version 10 of Coreldraw are know to
work and has got a bronze and gold rating respectively.
See appdb.winehq.org.
But this method won't help much, as the person is in DTP work, at one or
the other level he will face problems in emulation.
2. Can external HDD or one of the computer to be used in such a way
that atleast the data he backs up say one a week, remains
uninfected?
3. Any other solution?
Yes again for 2 and 3.
Here is a method that i suggest, Use some software like Norton Ghost or
its free alternative like PING (PartImage is not Ghost, is a live linux
ISO that can be used as backup tool and emergency recovery).
*1. Making Windows to recover instantly:* Install a copy of Windows with
all the softwares, and keep a freezed image of this OS for emergency
recovery. It takes about 5-7 mins to recover entire OS to the freezed state.
Also if you can purchase, there is a software called as deep freeze
that returns the system to its freezed state at every reboot. Undoing
all the changes done to the system. That is one of the good software for
systems with high virus infection risks. Files and folders can be
configured to be saved and not to be undone at reboot.
*2. Making files and folders safe:* On the second machine install some
version of GNU/Linux and with the prevailing network mount a Samba share
of Windows in RW mode on the Linux system. DO NOT put pen drives on the
windows machine, rather use Linux for this and manually copy the desired
files from the clients drive to the Windows machine using the mounted share.
This will eleminate about 90% of viruses and malwares being spreaded
by autorun method.
*3. Using the External media as safe storage:* This can be done manually
since now the system is not much prone to virus or using some automated
backup tools like amanda. Configure Amanda to backup the windows machine
over network using samba sharing.
P.S In any case use some good antivirus software and keep it updated.
regards,
amit
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