Chapter 4
Security Software or Technical band aids
The need for technical software to protect your computer from breaking down is
generally called security software or back up software. The
Cartel next mantra “Don't forget to back up your software before you try
to do, well try to do anything on your Cartel
PC.”
Shouldn't your hard drive archive and retain the information you save on it constantly
and reliably? Is that not its primary function. Is that not what the salesperson
told you it does
when you bought it. Does it indeed do any of these things?
Well no it doesn't. The hard drive can for a temporary undetermined amount of
time work reliably. Most hard drives can last for a reasonable and considerably
longer time when not hooked up or using Microsoft O.S.. It generally doesn't
appear to be the hard drives defection in most cases. In fact the hard drive
is failing or breaking almost instantly and certainly constantly if it is running
under Microsoft O.S. But Microsoft does have a band aid or technical security
software to keep it together it comes with a built-in tool called Disk Defragmenter
. What does this do? Well simply it repairs your hard drive as it gets broken
by using Microsoft O.S.. Some pieces of data are initially placed in order but
as you use Winxp the data gets moved out of order and sometimes it even gets
corrupt or broken or lost . Heres a quote
from Mr. Walker of Techtv at http://www.cyberwalker.net/columns/oct00/191000.html below.
During daily operations of a PC, You might think that it would start at one
part of the disk and write the data in an orderly fashion until the disk is full
up. The problem is data is always being written and deleted from a disk. So data
holes end up on your nicely organized hard drive the system will look for empty
space on the hard drive to write data to. When it finds free space it starts
to write data to that blank spot. If the space is too small to write all the
data in one go, it will write some of the data in one area and when it runs out
of space it writes the extra data to another area. This way no disk space is
wasted.
But hang on if it breaks Microsoft has another built in tool to fix it called
Scan disk. Thats right Microsoft knows and expects your Hard drive to be broken
and then fail and has built in tools to repair it. It expects and knows you will
lose data from your hard drive during average normal everyday use of the operating
system they sold you. They knowingly sold you defective software that will break
your hard drive. I don't believe there is anything illegal about that fact and
I don't thing anyone is powerful enough to fight Microsoft even if it
was illegal.
My main point is that Winxp is defective broken and will also ruin your hard
drive and destroy your work and data.
Its totally absurd really.
How many times daily does Winxp and its family of O.S. break down and destroys
or ruins data and hard drives. An educated guess concludes millions of times.
Guess how
many pieces of “back up”software have been sold to you to fix this
. Millions, just think of Norton and you get an inkling of how much money that
is.
Heres another huge computer
tip go online and buy Goback from Norton, its about $50 and really makes
all of your other backups and virus programs redundant. I am sorry for recommending
you actually buy something but most of us are stuck in the reality of using Cartel
computers and this software is the best there is. I originally started using
Goback 4 or 5 years ago it was originally made by Roxio and Norton bought it.
This is where you get the restore feature from in WINXP but they of course made
a watered down mostly useless version of it and included it in the software they
sold to you. Do yourself a favour and buy and install this today. Every Cartel
PC should have this installed. If you get a virus simply Goback to a time you
did not have one. If you lost a file simply Goback and retrieve it not only is
t well done but
its fast too. http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/backup_recovery/ngb40/
So to recap you were sold defective software that ruined your Hard drive and
ruined or lost your data by Microsoft then you were sold software to fix the
defective software made by Microsoft.
One of the smartest computer guys I am aware of is Steve Gibson of grc.com and
Techtv and my next computer tip is bookmark his
site and read and install all of his free software fixes. But the real tip is
buy spinrite at http://grc.com/spinrite.htm this
program is under $100 and is absolutely the best disk repair data recovery software
there is. It fits on a floppy disk it is not even 1mb in size and is better than
recovery software or recovery houses that will charge you thousands to repair
or recover your data. I have used it to save and repair several drives myself.
I first saw Steve on Call for help on Techtv with Leo Laporte. Which brings me
to
my next computer tip watch call for help
every day Leo and his crew are brilliant and unbiased and will keep you up to
date all for less than $5 a month.
I will get into anti virus software later but most virus executables are not
natural or intended by software developers .