I am quite a geek, and not too proud to admit that I do like to have the latest and greatest of toys to tinker with, and that is probably in direct proportion to my urge to wipe my computer and install new operating systems all the time. I sometimes wipe a drive a month, and some times I will simply load a server OS, and go virtual with top loads of either Hyper-V or VMWare images. It just depends on my mood... What is interesting is that my tinkering ways have brought me to a new line of thought... I bet that most people don't, or don't want to wipe their machines, they like the status quo... As such, it would be such a person that would cruise along through life, not knowing that their computer was infected with all sorts of nasty stuff, and infecting others that they come in contact with over the course of the machines life time... I am thinking now, that maybe there should be a movement in IT, that people should make a habit of backing up their Documents, Photos, and Songs, and then just wipe their machines... at the minimum of once per year; two or more times for the ones that simply like the computer to run as fast as it was intended to run... nothing better than a clean OS. What are your thoughts? Do you think keeping a machine up and running for 3 or 4 plus years, with the same OS and possibly 'up to date' anti virus definitions is good enough? Or do you think I might have it right in this line of thought? Wipe every year... It's just a thought... possibly a good one... |