Disaster Diverted
August 7th, 2008 by BobI was just bragging to a friend how great Pc-cillin Security Suite is. I never had a problem with viruses after installing it nor has any of my customers after installing it onto their computers. This is one program I highly recommend!
I needed to download a program that I had bought, but when I entered the URL for the download, Pc-cillin popped up and warned me not to continue and told me how to bypass their message if I was sure this message was wrong. Seeing as I paid for this program and trusted this site, I bypassed the warning a proceeded to the download page and downloaded my program. When I tried to exit from the download page that’s when I knew I had just been infected with a virus.
I spent the next 10 minutes trying to clean it off my system with no luck. So what did I do? I could have spent more time in trying to remove it, but instead, I just whipped out my last weekly hard drive backup and replaced the whole thing OS and all. In about 20 minutes I was back to normal and back to work.
Now I know that just about everyone reading this knows all about backing up the hard drive but I’ll bet you that only one out of a hundred is backing up their hard drive.
IT WILL HAPPEN! Your hard drive will crash, you’ll get infected, your data will get corrupted, what ever it is, it will happen! It’s just a matter of time.
STOP playing the odds and START your backups today!
The backup program I use is Acronis True Image Home 11.0 another program I’ve used in the past and can recommend is Norton Ghost, both will do a great job for you.