ISP accused of installing malware on 600,000 customer PCs to interfere with torrent traffic

[noblody]

Slow, yeah, but it is very reliable with most of the world's backups being on tape. It's predicted that LTO tapes will reach 350TB by 2030, or something the soze.of a 3.5" drive.

The medium might be reliable, but the floppy disks and drives I used were not. I remember when I had to take homework to the lab, we had it on 2-3 disks because of the reliability issues. Sometimes it was a problem with the reader. sometimes the disk worked after formatting, but a lot of times it was dead. Bad sectors, bad memories ... oh no ... I don't miss the floppy disk

 

[RudyBob]

No wonder Korea has such negative population growth

 

[WhoCaresAnymore]

What I don’t understand is how their anti-malware/anti-virus software didn’t catch it. I don’t torrent, so I don’t know the risks.

 

[Postone]

As long as at least one of those backups is physically off-line then you are good but some viruses can penetrate several levels of drives/backups to encrypt them.

Good point. My second external hard drive, is just that, offline. I forgot to mention that. However, a virus doesn't necessarily infect anything else other than the main computer hard drive. I've had viruses before, it's never been a problem if I needed to reinstall using True Image... It's certainly a much better way of a backup, than a cloud service. Of which, not all of them (cloud service) can not be trusted, or available when you need them most. Not to mention the cost, the time uploading, and or downloading large files. Or, the cloud service snooping on the data uploaded.