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Originally Posted by DanaC

I wasn't sure what it was supposed to do, but my system's fecking infested anyway. One of the little bastards managed to redirect my virus update and has basically taken control of avg :P various other updates (like windows update) have started acting awfully strange. This news story prompted me to do what I'd been intending to do vis a vis backing up my dissertation onto the university's fttp server.

Dana, create a Gmail account and email your backups to it. Your uni's server is geographically close to your home computer, I have heard of horror stories where people have lost master copies and backups at the same time.

Admittedly, these were in the 2003 firestorms in Canberra, but still, it really sucked for those involved.