by Kachang » Fri Sep 08, 2017 10:37 am
There's no such thing as full protection, so you better prepare for the shit to hit the fan, so you can act quickly in case something happens and be up and running quickly. Viruses and malware hit people hard because most people do not take the time to properly set up their computer, or make backups.
Fist, make sure you set your system up with two hard drives, no need for physical drives, but that way you can easily separate your OS and programs from your data. Once you've set up your laptop with the programs you want, make an image of the drive with your OS and programs. If shit hits the fan you can put back the image and you're up and running within an hour. You might want to make a new image once in while.
Backup your data on a regular basis, depending on how important your data is you can do it on one, or on several media. If your data contains sensitive data consider encryption. If you make an incremental backup it should take only minutes to make one. I use a USB flash drive for my common backups - I make one before I shut down my laptop - always. Invest in a good fast flash-drive, it will pay of. Cheap flash drives may have more or less decent read speed, but writing files might take ages, so....
There's no such thing as full protection, so you better prepare for the shit to hit the fan, so you can act quickly in case something happens and be up and running quickly. Viruses and malware hit people hard because most people do not take the time to properly set up their computer, or make backups.
Fist, make sure you set your system up with two hard drives, no need for physical drives, but that way you can easily separate your OS and programs from your data. Once you've set up your laptop with the programs you want, make an image of the drive with your OS and programs. If shit hits the fan you can put back the image and you're up and running within an hour. You might want to make a new image once in while.
Backup your data on a regular basis, depending on how important your data is you can do it on one, or on several media. If your data contains sensitive data consider encryption. If you make an incremental backup it should take only minutes to make one. I use a USB flash drive for my common backups - I make one before I shut down my laptop - always. Invest in a good fast flash-drive, it will pay of. Cheap flash drives may have more or less decent read speed, but writing files might take ages, so....