Back. Up. Daily.

At home, I'm the nag. I am always nagging my wife to back up her computer. She claims she's busy with our son, working, doing laundry, yadda, yadda, yadda. Guess what happened? She nearly lost all her data, including ad copy write-ups she is contractually obligated to keep for two years. She admitted that she hadn't backed up since October 2010.

How this happened is beyond me. We have anti-virus software running on all the computers in the house. For the record, we really thought CA, which we got through Cablevision at no extra charge, was the best. Unfortunately, it didn't work with Windows 7. I should really look into that now since Windows 7 has been around for a long time. I read recently that Windows 7 is pretty resistant to malware, but here's what happened to my wife's computer. A virus and a Trojan horse crept through Microsoft's own anti-virus program and hid her data files. We used malwarebytes.com to detect, quarantine and destroy the culprits. She's back in business. But she learned one valuable lesson:

Back. Up. Daily.