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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate

That's a common situation. There are ways around it; an entire industry full of them in fact. For instance, check out VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/); there's an open-source edition and one for "Personal Use & Evaluation" (meaning "it has proprietary code in it"). I run my web server and Jabber server on separate Linux installs, along with my copy of Win7 for my postgrad stuff (which I take as seriously as you take your job, I surmise). All of it works like a charm and doesn't require a locomotive's horsepower to run well.

Of the three "big" software solutions we have, one is nothing but a SQL database that runs well on a virtual computer.

The other two control security hardware and absolutely will not run on a virtual computer. I very rarely set them up on my personal computer along with the hardware. But sometimes I do.

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

I don't understand why folks put up with all that trouble.

Get a separate drive (not a partition on your C drive) for ALL saved data. Put nothing on your C drive other than the operating system and applications. Every time you save something it should be to that external dive/drives. (I have five externals connected.) Absolutely NO DATA gets saved to the C drive.

Stitchawl

Even separate data disks and backups aren't foolproof. You can have a virus long before you notice it and you'll back it up with the rest of your stuff.


Back in the 90s I was using McAfee. That was the first time (as far as I know) that a virus turned off an antivirus program, not just bypassed it.