Re: [SLUG] [OT} Data backup horror stories -was stolen compter article

[Kevin Waterson]

Andrew Langton wrote:

> I had a client that was hit by the chernobyl virus, wiped the hard disk on
> his notebook.  He hadn't been updating his virus defs like he was supposed
> to, and even though he had a parallel port Zip drive permanently connected
> to his docking station, he hadn't backed up for nearly three months.  In the
> meantime, a big deal had come up, and he had lost all his doco on it.  He
> didn't keep paper copies of anything, and he faxed direct from the PC, so he
> lost the whole lot.  They lost that job.

Apoint to note from this story,
We had several such cases with the Chernobyl virus, some of them running
Norton anti-virus. Unfortunately if you have a virus and install NAV it may
not pick it up, however, if you start with a clean HDD it will discover the
virus and deal with it

Kevin

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