One virus, two virus, three virus, four

To go hand in hand with this week’s poll, I’ll talk about a habitual notion. If you’re like most people, you can look around your office and within arm’s reach will be a ream of cds or dvds. They’ve been anxiously staring at you for a few months’ time.

You heard about all those viruses on the go and headed to your local geekery shop, bought your backup media, and were gun-ho in ensuring those years of work are backed up.

Amazing how a threat can get you to drive to a store, hand your money over to a cashier, bring the cds home, but not follow through with actually backing your data up.

If you were to calculate the amount hours, sweat, and tears you put into every single piece of data on your computer it would be well into the thousands. Now take all of that and delete it. Why the hell would you do that? Well you wouldn’t, but somebody else will try to at some point.

Hackers can be slowed down with firewalls, software, and common sense, but 9 times out of 10 you’ll be the one that accidentally downloaded an infected file from a colleague, which leads to your computer’s slate being wiped clean in no time.

So take the time this week, only a couple hours, and back up every important document on your computer. You’ll thank me for this public service announcement if something tragic was to ever happen to your computer.