Comment Hasn't this been done before? (Score 1) 604
Isn't this what the guy who wrote ACT! and then SalesLogix did?
Reliable, Free Anti-Virus Software? 586
oahazmatt writes "Some time ago my wife was having severe issues on her laptop. (A Dell Inspiron, if that helps.) I eventually found the cause to be McAfee, which took about an hour to remove fully. I installed AVG on her system to replace McAfee, but we have since found that AVG is causing problems with her laptop's connection to our wireless network. She's not thrilled about a wired connection as the router is on the other end of the house. We're looking for some good, open-source or free personal editions of anti-virus software. So, who on Slashdot trusts what?" When school required a Windows laptop, I used Clam AV, and the machine seemed to do as well as most classmates'. What have you found that works?
Submission + - Small Business Backup Practices
Bithmus writes: I have been tasked with finding a new way for our company to handle our laptop backups. We currently have nightly backups of our servers, but no backups of laptops. In our business we sell, implement and develop another companies software. I guess that makes us a Valued Added Reseller. During development our consultants will create copies of a customers database on MSDE on their laptops. If a hard drive crashes, all of the work done on that laptop is lost. In addition there are other files that need to be saved, but the databases are really the important items. Ideally these databases would be stored on the SQL servers and the other files stored on the file server, but this is not happening.
What do Slashdot readers do to protect data on laptops or computers outside of a local network?
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