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mlts22
Dec 18, 2013Explorer II
There are plenty of reliable, known, good utilities out there. Plus, the fact that the stakes are so high if a computer is compromised make me extremely distrustful of a utility with mixed reviews. BitCoin is the rage right now, and there are a wave of dubious utilities hitting the Net in hopes of someone installing it, so the author gets a bunch of "free" slave computers to mine coins with.
The one utility I recommend people pay for is an external HDD, good backup program, such as Acronis TrueImage or something similar. That, and a Mozy or Carbonite subscription so documents are safely stored offline just in case the external hard disk and the computer get destroyed at the same time. The ironic thing is that the server version of Windows has a very good utility, but it is utterly crippled in Windows 7.
Of course, one can always go with a Mac, iCloud, and Time Machine, but that can get expensive.
The one utility I recommend people pay for is an external HDD, good backup program, such as Acronis TrueImage or something similar. That, and a Mozy or Carbonite subscription so documents are safely stored offline just in case the external hard disk and the computer get destroyed at the same time. The ironic thing is that the server version of Windows has a very good utility, but it is utterly crippled in Windows 7.
Of course, one can always go with a Mac, iCloud, and Time Machine, but that can get expensive.
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