Re: Best AV prog for XP = KAV 5 right?
From: Carl Farrington (carl_at_000compsup000.net.invalid)
Date: 10/07/04
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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 13:18:18 +0100
Bart Bailey wrote:
> In Message-ID:<ck19hu$9sv$1$830fa795@news.demon.co.uk> posted on Wed,
> 6 Oct 2004 18:21:01 +0100, Carl Farrington wrote: Begin
>
>> chris@nospam.com wrote:
>>>
>>> I stopped using Partition Magic a long time ago. It's slow and
>>> finicky. I much prefer the products from Acronis. Acronis
>>> PartitionExpert works very well and much faster than PM. I also
>>> find Acronis TruImage to be a better product than ghost, mostly
>>> because you don't have to reboot to make an image. This makes it a
>>> true bare metal recovery that can actually be routinely used
>>> without bringing a server down.
>>
>> I knew there was some good discussion on disk imaging software
>> somewhere that I'd read recently. This was it but I couldn't find
>> it, so I went through all the packages I could find (Paragon stuff..
>> buggy at best), and ended up being *very* satisfied with Acronis
>> TrueImage.
>
> All this buzz about this Acronis got my attention, so I clicked my way
> over to their site to get the demo, over 21MB for a limited feature
> version.
> I've been using Norton Ghost for years because it fits on the same
> floppy as my Boot2DOS files.
> I'm wondering what the other twenty odd MB consist of?
> (must be all that bare metal protection)
> A couple of warning flags were flapping so loudly I had to abort the
> download to type this;
> First: A required email harvester scheme before even allowing a trial
> download.
> Second: Download speed (barely 40KB/s) is more like what someone would
> get in a basement operation from a home cable modem than a commercial
> software distributor.
>
>>
>> excellent. You're judgement in software seems to be very good!
>>
>> cheers.
>>
heh. I know. Well i'd just google the thing. Basically, what it offers me is
speed and convenience. I have an Abit Serielle 2 SATA -> PATA adapter. Using
this with my Silicon Image sil3112 sata controller I am able to hot-plug a
drive into my XP machine, and start up True Image, then restore an image
back to this disk.
The image I have is Windows XP w/SP2, Acrobat Reader 6.0.2, NOD32 AV &
Mediaplayer 10. When restored, it consumes about 1.7gb on the disk.
Restoring the disk takes under two minutes. I then "uninstall" the drive in
device-manager, and pull the sata lead.
So the major benefit is not having to leave Windows and therefore not having
to keep a FAT volume for storing the image files. Oh, and speed of course.
Oh, and if you read back through the discussion, you'll see it was about AV
software (and my disliking for Norton-anything nowadays. I possibly accept
that Symantec Antivirus Corporate edn might be good, but haven't tried it,
but I detest Norton anything). This other chap mentioned TrueImage. I later
went in search of imagaing software because my image now doesn't fit onto a
CDR so I can't use self-booting restore CD's any more, therefore I wanted
something that would run in Windows. I ended up sticking with TrueImage
(eMule / eDonkey is your friend if the official try-before-you-buy is not
acceptable), then I found this post again and just happened to mention the
fact.
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