Well Well

[Shifty]

Feeling down? Tired of getting stung by viruses? Fed up of being snooped on byt pesky spyware? No beer money because of annual subscription costs? Not enough RAM due to bloated antivirus software? Sore bottom?

Well worry no more!

This might be of interest or use to someone somewhere.

I have been using a free product called Returnil (http://www.returnilvirtualsystem.com/index_files/rvspersonal.htm) for the last year which does away with the need for antivirus or antispyware. When it's turned on, every time you reboot your PC it clears your hard drive of everything that might have been installed during your last browsing session. What this means, is that your PC is completely clear after each reboot.

However this also means that anything you want to download and keep, has to be saved onto a virtual partition(which returnil can create on installation) or preferably an external hard drive. Otherwise it will get erased the next time you reboot.

If you want to install software or updates onto your actual hard drive, you can turn Returnil off with the click of a button. However, each time you turn it on/off you do need to reboot it before the change comes into effect.

This program is probably not for everyone, but personally I wouldn't be without it now. :smiley20:

[Howard Neill]

Thanks Shifty.

It is probably not for me, because our clients often send us things, which I need to keep. Being an old fart, I would probably forget to turn Returnil off each time I want to save something.

Cheers

.

[yarrumsg]

Vista gives you this option as well, or microsoft virtual machine always good to dump spyware good find

[joemac]

Or......., you could just use Linux

[dallas]

Too complex for my little brain

[Shifty]

Thanks Shifty.

It is probably not for me, because our clients often send us things, which I need to keep. Being an old fart, I would probably forget to turn Returnil off each time I want to save something.

Cheers

.

Fair enough Howard. Ideally you should have an external hard drive so that you can save documents as you go along.

If you're referring emails that people send you, it shouldn't have any effect on the emails you receive. Unless you specifically delete them, they are always going to be in your inbox.

Leaving Returnil aside, it's a very good idea to have an external hard drive for back up purposes for when your PC hard drive eventually fails. And it most definitely will(if you own your PC long enough).

[yarrumsg]

or you just buy online storage ;) some companies offer 1gig free some 5, might as wel get it into your way of thinking now, it's how things are going to run in the future, 2010 MS plans on you accessing office via the web, my company is going down the route of TS anway just so we don't have the overheads with "men on the ground" oh well didn't really love my job that much