"thunder" wrote in message
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On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:10:49 -0500, JimH wrote:


I have an external hard drive that I do a full backup to weekly using
Acronis. I store my music and photo files on a partition on my hard
drive
and on the external hard drive.

With a latent virus like this, you could have backed the virus up to that
external hard drive. Something to think about if your data is important.

I run a virus scan prior to backing up.

Here is a nice tool from MS to run:

http://safety.live.com/

More he

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec...ry/904420.mspx

http://www.windowsonecare.com/