Posted by rview_ on October 24, 2014 at 17:14:05 from (199.47.65.57):
In Reply to: Got my computor back posted by 37Chief on October 24, 2014 at 08:41:11:
It's probably been close to a year since I've looked at Cryptolocker info (that's what this sounds like), nobody around here got it so I never paid much attention. I thought it was spread by an email attachment that looked like a pdf but wasn't? Might not be it.
If you have a gmail account and use Chrome, you can sign into Chrome and it will back up your bookmarks, passwords, etc. Firefox also has a Sync thing built in, create an account, and you need to save a key code, does about the same thing. If you have another computer in the house you can have more than one signed in, save bookmarks in one, they show up in the other, or get a new computer, just log in and you have all of that back. Don't use Internet Explorer if possible.
Backups, need to be careful if you have data caps with the online stuff of course. Carbonite and other paid services work ok. Dropbox is easy and gives a little bit of free data storage. Lots of others. Flickr.com has a lot of free room for photos and videos. Google has some too. In the other post about uploading photos, I mentioned the free program Google Picasa. Download and fairly easy to install, then tell it where your photos are if they are some place other than the usual picture folder. You can then sign into that program with a gmail account and it can automatically upload your photos (private or share with others). Also a decent basic photo editor, organizer, etc.
For computer backups, external hard drive with auto backups is about easiest. Flash drive a little bit. DVD works well and is fairly reliable, and not expensive. Blu rays hold a lot more, drives are around $50, discs aren't too bad. Optical discs like that are fading away though, people are using them less when they have unlimited Internet for movies and backup.
And if you get hit by a virus or your computer won't turn on, wouldn't hurt to have a Linux live disc around and know how to use it just in case. You don't have to install it, but you can start your computer from it and run directly off of the disk (cd/usb). This gets you to a desktop, you can do Internet with Firefox or Chrome or whatever is included depending which one you have. You can also plug in an external drive and copy off data from the drive that won't boot. You can then restart the computer, take the disc out, and it's exactly like it was, nothing on the drive changed.
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