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Re: I Got Rid Of All Those Computer "Security" Woes

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Carson,

> "Toolwiz Time Freeze is a free instant system protection tool
> that will protect your system from any unwanted changes and
> malicious activity in low disk level".

As I told you a couple(?) of years ago, that may true, but that doesn't make 
it an AV product - and you should not be advertising it as such.

> You do have to have a second drive or USB drive to save any
> programs you do wish to  permanently install in Windows. You
> then have to turn off Time Freeze and reboot into unprotected
> Windows and install the program.
> You then click Time Freeze to "ON" and reboot.  The new program
> will then show up in the protected Windows.

And if the newly installed program contains malware you are f*cked - and you 
won't even know.

> Bookmark updates will also have to be copied to the second drive
> and reloaded the same way.

And all sorts of configurations and, if you are a gamer, all save-games. 
That becomes tedious rather quickly.  Heck, you could not even, in the 
filebrowser, change the view mode from "list" to "details" and expect it to 
be there the next day.

Bottom line : If you save/store *anything* while having "time freeze" active 
with the intention to use it the next time you are effectivily circumventing 
its protection : if your "configuration storage" medium gets infected you 
will be re-infecting the clean OS every time you access it.

The product is good for school computers so a pupil can play with it - 
including putting viri on it or trashing the 'puter by deleting/changing 
system files - and than restore the machine to a clean state, but no more 
than that.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

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I Got Rid Of All Those Computer "Security" Woes carson@invalid.com - 2025-08-22 14:25 -0500
  Re: I Got Rid Of All Those Computer "Security" Woes "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-08-22 22:42 +0200
    Re: I Got Rid Of All Those Computer "Security" Woes carson@invalid.com - 2025-08-22 16:46 -0500
      Re: I Got Rid Of All Those Computer "Security" Woes "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-08-23 08:29 +0200
        Re: I Got Rid Of All Those Computer "Security" Woes VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-08-23 10:45 -0500
  Re: I Got Rid Of All Those Computer "Security" Woes VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-08-22 23:35 -0500
    Re: I Got Rid Of All Those Computer "Security" Woes ron@invalid.com - 2025-08-23 00:29 -0500
      Re: I Got Rid Of All Those Computer "Security" Woes carson@invalid.com - 2025-08-23 00:31 -0500
      Re: I Got Rid Of All Those Computer "Security" Woes VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-08-23 10:44 -0500
  Re: I Got Rid Of All Those Computer "Security" Woes "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2025-08-23 22:32 +0800

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