@joshl - Regarding your browser-forum question about backups. What I was suggesting there in the XP thread was to make frequent, full drive images (using something like Macrium Reflect, True Image, etc) and saving those on a removable drive. Depending on the size of what is being imaged, hence the image itself, one could use a large-capacity flash drive or an external hard-drive to store the image.
I use both kinds of storage, but primarily I employ two identical external hard-drives that I swap out. I create an image at some point in time onto one of them, then rotate in the other drive immediately just in case. About two to four weeks later, I will create a fresh image on the connected drive and immediately remove it and rotate back in the first drive. That way, the freshest backup image is always 'in storage' and not connected to the system, again, just in case. Because I separately power my external drives and normally keep them powered down, a system failure or infection shouldn't attack a still-connected drive, but I'm a "belt and suspenders" kind of guy, so I keep multiple layers of protection by using both a connected and a stored external drive.
The use of external hard-drives also allows me to keep several images on a given drive so that I can go back further in time to recover an earlier snapshot of my main drive. That's harder to do on a flash drive because of their smaller storage space. The multiple images can be important both for later recovering from an earlier accidental deletions of important data as well as getting around a malware infection that occurred at some point in the past but went unnoticed at the time.
By the way, I did reply to your earlier post in the Trouble of the Day thread about the mice, but it got caught and jailed in the forum trap before being finally released, so it doesn't appear in the 'last posted' index summary.
