Computer Security Blog

In the PowerPoint on Computer Security and Acceptable Use, Dr. Parlo mentioned how important it is to back-up your data. I definitely see the extreme importance in doing so now. Back in March, within one week, I lost my entire teaching material on my flashdrive, my home computer got infected with viruses, and my school computer got infected with viruses. I suppose both of the computers I was using got infected due to my flashdrive that I used both at work and at school. I was lucky enough to recover all data on both computers but was not lucky enough to recover the data on my flashdrive. I was not very smart in that about half of the material on my flashdrive was not saved anywhere else. I have never felt so sick than I did this week when everything went up. I now am keeping back-up files for all documents I create and I have updated my virus ware on the computer. Please take my experience as a learning experience! It really doesn't feel good when you know you have lost over 30 some PPTs which is quite a bit of time gone as well!