sabijon said:
Hi guys, I just want to as how safe I am... I have to uninstall my
anti-virus since it is in conflict with some games that i am playing,
to compensate for that, i am using deep freeze utilities, am i safe?
How is caching changes to the hard drive (to then wipe them on a reboot
to revert to a prior state of the partition) going to protect you? One,
until you revert, any malware will still be on your host doing whatever
it wants. Two, if your data is in the same partition then any changes
you make to it will be lost when you revert. Three, if your data is in
a different partition (which is not protected with cached changes by
DeepFreeze), that won't prevent malware altering, deleting, or
transmitting those data files, and the same for all user data on the
partition that is being cached (since at the time of caching the malware
still gets to do whatever it wants).
No, you are not safe. You can't use DeepFreeze to protect you from
malware. You use it to revert your partition back to a prior state
(which may or may not be clean).
Because I'm not interested in paying for DeepFreeze, and because the
free version has the features that I need, I use Returnil. So I know
that change caching does NOT block malware from getting onto your host
nor does it protect your host from any actions committed by that malware
while it is on your host. All that DeepFreeze and Returnil will let you
do is revert the partition back to a prior state which is hopefully
before the malware showed up - but then you won't know since you removed
all other detection software!
Go actually read the description of DeepFreeze at Faronics' web site.
Then you'll know what it really does.
