Computer Safety

Strong passwords,dumping the cache and cookies,closing open files after every session (e-mail program) and logging out goes a long way to preventing hacking,too. Crooks can't get in if the doors are locked.

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Originally Posted by trimmer21

Strong passwords,dumping the cache and cookies,closing open files after every session (e-mail program) and logging out goes a long way to preventing hacking,too. Crooks can't get in if the doors are locked.

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Disable "PING"on the router so when hackers are searching for working IP addresses your's will not answer the ping. Think of ping as sonar looking for a sub. If your router has ping allowed then when they ping the ip address you are using your router sends a return ping back. Just like the echo off the sub's hull. No return ping and they will not know you are there.

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Originally Posted by Snowwalker

X2. Any place on the drive the OS can read/write the virus can too.
You would just be installing a fresh copy of the OS to be infected the second it accessed the data. There are also a host of other issues that you would have to solve. The new copy of the OS would not know where the data was.

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First off you're assuming that a data drive would be infected. I've heard plenty of stories over the years of folks losing all their important family pics and the like because it was on their system drive and they had to reformat. Malware attacks the drive with the OS and other partitions are not usually targeted. I'm not saying it can't happen but I would say highly unlikely. And there are no system files on the data drive so I don't see what files the OS would have to know about. When I say data I'm talking about pics, movies, music, documents etc.
So why not just use a bootable linux/ubuntu flash drive and then you can access the hard disk without fear and run antimalware on the data drive to be sure? Then reinstall the OS on the system drive. Makes sense to me.

Cheers

Use AVG no issues also run Malwarebytes. If it was Microsoft stuff that was infected best measure is to stay on top of MS updates as they usually cover any vulnerabilities.

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Originally Posted by smitty55

So why not just use a bootable linux/ubuntu flash drive and then you can access the hard disk without fear and run antimalware on the data drive to be sure? Then reinstall the OS on the system drive. Makes sense to me.

Cheers

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Yup have recovered lots of people's stuff by using Linux. In fact I just run it all the time.

As for os not finding the data drive, I am talking about people that setup the download/document/picture/etc on the other partion. If you have things that you have downloaded to the other partion ( game updates, funny gifs, etc) that have malware or virus in them, as soon as you apply the updates or run the software that would reinfect the OS. Just like it did the first time.