How about Returnil with Kaspersky?

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  1. poutine

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    Re: Kaspersky reliable?

    I have already paid for and bought Acronis Trueimage and will just use that. Even though it means a full restore, it only takes about 15minutes, so it's ok :thumb:

    But if they were free, I would use Returnil or Rollback as well.
     
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    Re: Kaspersky reliable?

    Returnil has a free version.
     
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    Re: Kaspersky reliable?

    Yes and its very good. But unlike the pro version it doesnt make permanent changes to your sys if you want it to. After a reboot... all gone.. but thats not a bad thing and you can always install for real after anyways.
    You can even surf the net with returnil on, no fear of viruses or anything then. :D
    Used it for a year with no issues at all.

    I also use Acronis True Image for making full backups of my clean sys. Keep one image on a dvd the other on Hard disk 2.
     
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    Re: Kaspersky reliable?

    Agreed :thumb:
    When i first started using this program i couldnt really believe what it could do. Almost seemed too good to be true. :)
     
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    Re: Kaspersky reliable?

    did you try rollback rx8.1 yet?

    i've been using RollbackRX8.1 + KIS for more than a year....nice combo!
     
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    Re: Kaspersky reliable?

    But what exactly does it do? I installed it and it created a Z virtual drive, Now what? LOL
     
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    Re: Kaspersky reliable?

    When you activate it (Session Lock or turning it On), your system partition will be virtualised, so when you reboot any changes you made will be gone.
     
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    Re: Kaspersky reliable?

    Sounds great. But it only made Z virtual drive 5GB (which is empty by the way), but my whole Vista partition C: is 16GB.

    So hows that work? How can it virtualise my 16GB Vista unto a 5GB virtual drive?
     
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    Re: Kaspersky reliable?

    Guys, can you move the totally off-topic Returnil debate to a separate thread?

    Done - LWM
     
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    Re: Kaspersky reliable?

    The Z virtual drive is a virtual partition created when you first install Returnil, where you can save any data you want to keep to that drive whilst Returnil protection is on.
    Your C drive is still there, just minus the 5gb virtual partition.
    When you re-boot, all data on your C drive will be lost, but all data stored on your Z drive will still be there.
     
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