Best way to backup a specific drive?
Daniel B. Thurman
dant at cdkkt.com
Tue Oct 2 15:44:52 UTC 2007
>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Tim
>Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 8:24 AM
>To: For users of Fedora
>Subject: RE: Best way to backup a specific drive?
>
>
>On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 07:19 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>> Well fwiw, installing the free AVG prints such messages to
>both incomming
>> and outgoing scanned messages/files and cannot be blocked by
>the user other
>> than to remove or buy the professional AVG product. I agree
>that all computer
>> users should have Anti-S/V programs installed and to secure
>their systems, as
>> I do, but don't take my word for it, scan and scan again to
>your heart's content!
>
>The problem is that such an advertisement proves nothing about the
>message contents, it's completely unverifiable. And, worse, it
>encourages people to believe such messages in their incoming
>mail. It's
>really a bad thing to encourage complacency.
>
>> I have yet to find a free product such as AVG from the
>OpenSource community that
>> is fully-loaded and fully-automatic such as professional
>AV/S products provide
>> and hence the reason for my continued use of AVG.
>
>Use it, fine, encourage other people to scan for viruses, fine. But
>just don't include *its* message that encourages bad things
>(complacency).
>
>Though, for what it's worth, I don't think very highly of AVG. Too
>often I've seen it warn a person that their computer has become
>infected, while it did nothing to prevent it becoming infected, and
>would do nothing to disinfect it. I laughed my head off at the friend
>who struck that. He had to reformat to get rid of the virus, nothing
>would actually do it that he tried.
>
>Trust me, the file I've attached to this e-mail is safe to run, it will
>not cause any damage to your computer.
>
Yes, I am aware of it, but again I cannot prevent the messages being
sent. Since you do not believe AVG is a good product, do you have any
suggestion as to what is a great free product for all platforms? I am
using an M$ platform as well as many un*x variants (Solaris, Linux, and
others)? I would LOVE to learn of other products especially that of network
based A-V/S products, free, of course. I am but poor and cannot afford
the fee nor subscriptions.
Kind regards,
Dan
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