I just thought I would mention that Faronics' Deep Freeze is a really cool program, especially for educational environments. We use it at the school I work for, and it has greatly reduced virus problems and the like.
What it basically does is holds a hard drive image if the computer is "frozen." Any changes made are temporary, and when the computer restarts, it is rolled back to its pristine state that the administrator has set. If changes need to be made and held, the computer may be "thawed" and then frozen again.
I like this program so much that I use it on my own computer with a separate partition set aside for documents. So far I haven't had any viruses or worms creep into that other partition. Ideally you want to have network drives mapped that will hold any documents that must stay.
Has anyone else used this program that cares to comment?
--rainmaker
What it basically does is holds a hard drive image if the computer is "frozen." Any changes made are temporary, and when the computer restarts, it is rolled back to its pristine state that the administrator has set. If changes need to be made and held, the computer may be "thawed" and then frozen again.
I like this program so much that I use it on my own computer with a separate partition set aside for documents. So far I haven't had any viruses or worms creep into that other partition. Ideally you want to have network drives mapped that will hold any documents that must stay.
Has anyone else used this program that cares to comment?
--rainmaker
