Server Change & Viruses

Last weekend I moved this blog to a new server. I know I lost a few comments so if yours was one of them I apologize.

Not long after the change I got a virus on my computer. That’s why I’ve been gone for the past week. And it made me have a big realization…

I had all of my business stuff saved on that computer and didn’t have it backed up.

Luckily I didn’t lose everything on the hard drive. I’m getting all of the stuff I need off of it and then it needs to be completely erased.

I was about due for a new computer anyway so I ended up just buying a new one. This time I installed DeepFreeze on it so I don’t have to worry about viruses anymore.

DeepFreeze is a program that a lot of corporations/schools and other public places use to keep their computers safe.

The way it works is it makes a backup copy of all the stuff on your computer when you first install it. Then anytime your restart your computer it loads that backup copy. Anything that’s installed after is automatically deleted.

So even if I do get a virus on this computer all I have to do is turn the computer off and the virus will be removed. And any changes the virus makes to my computer will be reversed.

And beyond that I’ll have the old computer as a backup just in case anything else should happen to it.

Moral of the story: Backup Everything!

- Aaron Anderson

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