On eBay you can buy a license of Kaspersky for $6.50 (no shipping charges)! I didn't know that it was the kernel of ZA's suite, otherwise I wouldn't have bought one. No wonder that they both worked so well!
I bought the FileData software initially to try to resusitate a drive that had been royally nuked- it didn't do too much then and I thought I had wasted my money. Now, though, it worked like a charm and saved my royal-"arse" since I had several dozen charts that I had scanned into PDFs that I wasn't able to save due to a network glitch that I hadn't gotten around to fixing yet. It also got all the less importand documents. None were lost, it seems.
Gosh, I've had 4 computers go down on me in 72 hours:
-- one got hit by a virus (critical office files temporarily lost then recovered as noted above)
-- one laptop refused to turn on (its RAM chips had become loose)
-- I was upgrading my son's computer with more RAM and hard drives when initially the Paragon software that I was using to resize the boot drive disk burped and fried the boot file necessitating a WinXP "repair" installation. When completed, this one also got hit by the same virus as the 1st one. Virus deleted by ZA, but managed to destroy the boot file again, requiring ANOTHER repair WinXP installation. Double bad luck here!
-- one kept turning off due to a software conflict with ZoneAlarm's suite software
I conquered all 4 problems, so I'm rockin' and rollin'!!!!
BUT, I got home tonight and my car port won't open... is this bad luck, or what? My wife designated tomorrow as a fix toilet and change lightbulb day... almost as much fun as installing WinXP (NOT!!!).
I'm writing this note using my son's upgraded computer which now runs SWEET, with the new WD Raptor SATA drive (10000 RPM and 16MG on board ram), 3GB on motherboard RAM, and 3D 500MB Ram video card.
