Originally Posted by
billgrates3
There is a great commercial product called DeepFreeze from faronics.com.
My NGO uses DeepFreeze on all Windows installations in Africa & Asia, where malware is ubiquitous. So far, none of our PCs have been successfully hacked, because whenever a virus or other infection is suspected, rebooting puts the PC back to its original clean state. Anything that had been changed, including web caches, cookies, screensavers, usage history... every change since the original setup, is erased. This type of software is perfect for cybercafe setups like the ACs and FLs.... it's inexpensive too.
I beg to disagree - until anything is
suspected, which may be hours to days to weeks (unless they reboot every night lets say), those PC's could be sat there harvesting data.
So they may well have been successfully hacked, just not for say periods of weeks. This is more akin to having a look around your house every now and again and throwing the occasional burglar out, but leaving the windows and doors wide open afterwards.
