Thanks John, I will keep an eye out for folks with a similar setup. Who knows how much grief you may have saved someone with your having shared that info.
Gil Gilbert M. Hale [email protected] 585-359-8085 - Office (Rolls To Cellular) 585-202-4341 - Cellular/Voice Mail Legal Advisory: I have had a security expert advise me to embed the following statement in all outgoing eMails. Please read it. The statement below pertains to any person receiving or reading this document, whether or not they are the intended recipient or have intercepted this information as a non-secured communication transmitted over the Internet. Be advised you are required to comply with the following statement: This email communication (and any attached file or files) is intended only for the recipient(s) listed above. If you are neither an intended recipient, or a person responsible for the delivery of this communication to the intended recipient, you are hereby advised that any use, distribution or copying of the information in this communication is prohibited. The information transmitted in this email communication, and any attached file(s), may include confidential material protected by a privileged attorney/client relationship, may be an attorney work product, or may be work performed for a client that contains confidential information. Further, an attorney/client privilege includes CPA related work under the "Kovel Rule" and other similar State and/or Federal protections. If you have received this information in error please notify the sender immediately via return email, or at 585-359-8085 > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:profoxtech- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of John Weller > Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 6:11 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Macrium Reflect and Avast Anti-Virus > > > I have several computers on a network at home. All have the hard drive > partitioned into 2, one for system and apps the other for data. At > intervals I take an image of C: and store it on D:. I also copy the > images > to an external USB hard drive on machine 3. I use Macrium Reflect to > create > the images and have been very pleased with it. > > I recently had to restore my laptop from the image on machine 3 and > found it > was corrupt so I checked all of the images. All of the local images > except > those on 3 were fine but all bar one on the external drive were > corrupt, > that was one which had only been on for a short time. > > I looked at the Macrium Forum and saw a mention of Avast anti-virus. > That > made me realise that the common link was that all the other machines > had AVG > anti-virus whereas number 3 had Avast. I'd put it on as a trial > following > comments on this list. I removed Avast and replaced it with AVG. One > of the > previously corrupt backups on the external drive and the local backup > on 3 > then showed as valid but all of the others were still corrupt. > > I can only assume that Avast was somehow corrupting the backup files > when it > did its scan. > > I offer this information for the benefit of others. > > John Weller > 01380 723235 > 07976 393631 > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/001c01ca563c$aac98340$005c89...@com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
