My aim is to keep everything in future on the large HD and allow nothing on to it until it has been thoroughly virus checked first. All downloads will come onto the C drive and be vetted before being allowed on to the main disk. Another son is an IT Manager for a large London Company and works his company system like that. They use a 120Gb for receiving everything into the company and anything being sent out. It is then checked by two virus programmes and various other security software before being passed on to the intended recipient, each of whom has a 20Gb HD in his or her workstation. (A few have a 40Gb). None of the individual workstations has a disk drive of any sort - and laptops can only be connected after being submitted for AV checking by the IT dept. Anything that needs installing is done by the IT people, either from their own desk or by using a laptop on a wireless network. (One of their salesmen was fired last October when he was caught using his laptop without having first having it vetted by the IT Dept. It was the MD that spotted him and he went "ballistic" apparently. Fired him on the spot! It's a condition of employment to submit all material and laptops to IT first, so the guy didn't have a leg to stand on.)
That way, over the past five years my son has been there, they've hardly ever had a virus get into the system proper. He keeps a second mirror copy of the 120Gb drive with operating system etc. and once has had to swap disks when the Love Bug made it through onto the C drive in its very early days. (The AV Update arrived from their provider about 15 minutes too late!) But it only meant they were down for about thirty minutes in total while he swapped the C drive over! Many other firms were of course left in chaos.
It may seem longwinded and even overkill - but as they deal with many leading advertising agencies, some household name chart-topping Pop Stars plus major advertisers they have to be 100% certain their system is clean. Very often advertisers use their facilities as a download location for sample programs or demo copies of stuff they are selling. A multi million pound contract cannot be allowed to slip away because a system has a virus or whatever on it that gets passed to the client! They buy their software direct from Microsoft and they helped them work out this system and set it up with them. (But you need to spend over �100k a year on MS software to get that sort of support!)
Since I have the kit lying around to be able to do something similar - but not quite as rigorous - I thought I may as well, having been hit by three viruses over the past six months as I've expanded my online dealings with clients. My son has given me detailed instructions as to what to do and will come and check it all through for me during the weekend, once dad has done all the donkey work!
Peter MacGregor
At 21:39 13/01/2005, you wrote:
When you've got it all, and you're SURE you've got it all, then you can reformat it while it's still in the new system, saving a bit of the hassle when you take it out and mount it in your ancillary system. No CDs to burn, no network required. The only requirement is at least one (currently) empty drive bay in the new system.
I usually used to also put DOS 6.22 and CD-ROM drivers on it, so I can start the install/upgrade chai
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