That would do it :)

Many years ago, I had a backup that was 20 LTO-2 tapes a week for a full backup. Restoring a file from that did not take long at all. I'd say 30 minutes pretty much every time. I could have restored the entire array in a the time frames you are talking about. Not sure why you are taking days to get a file, unless your backup was far more massive than that?

You're right. They all rank it second or third to last. You know what else MSE sucks at? Removing infections. I've cleaned up enough machines with MSE to know. I used to like and recommend MSE but it has fallen too far behind. I'd be interested in seeing any tests that rank it in the top 75% in the last year.

MSE is consistently at the bottom of detection rates in every modern test. Just about any other free av product would be better.

It's also in the bottom of ratings on nearly every test performed. It probably is in all tests performed but I won't claim to have seen every single one.

There's a lot of people saying Microsoft Security Essentials or Windows Defender. That was a great answer a few years ago, it's not now. It's near the bottom of of the lists in rankings on most tests. For those saying don't use any AV, stop posting please. You're not impressing anyone by trying to be l33t prosauce internet surfer. http://www.av-comparatives.org... http://www.av-test.org/en/anti... https://www.virusbtn.com/vb100... http://www.tomsguide.com/us/be... http://www.lifehacker.co.uk/20... Nowhere on ay of those links will you find someone saying that MSE/Defender is a good choice.

On the bright side, whoever selects that will be long dead by the time it happens and thus fully protected from ever having to deal with being blamed :)

It wouldn't hurt to have a distribution group for this and then make yourself and others a member of the group, even if it's your boss. Best case scenario, he gets the alert and says, Bob, did you see the alert about... Already took care of it this morning. Good man.

Nah. Spiceworks reminds me on the off chance my brain cells have completely checked out.

100 year registration is dirt cheap compared to what happened as a result of it expiring :)

There was already a petition to build a death star.

The problem with these articles is that they are hit pieces that follow a stereo type. You badmouth I.T. as the problem and nobody says anything, then the stereotype continues unabated. If I.T. responds well then they just don't get it and obviously they are too blind, or egotistical to see that it's true. It's a no win situation for the victim of the article. Hey I.T. are you still beating your wife? Wait what? I never.. Oh so you're in denial about it eh? Tell me more wife beater...

"The article is BS; most of the items could apply to any other area or field" Exactly, but I.T. is low man on the totem pole. There couldn't possibly be a problem with anyone else. Everyone has problems. People are people, you get ego's and attitudes in all parts of the company. In fact it's rewarded in some parts of the company. The higher up you get, the more it's rewarded.

They don't want to hear the opinion of I.T. They want what they want and screw the consequences. Just make it work! The same people that don't accept the "it's done this way for a very good reason" are the same people that tell you they can't change something on their side because "that's just the way it's always been done". They hate the question of "why are we doing this"? I don't ask that because I'm questioning their need or decision, I ask it because I'm trying to figure out what the ultimate goal is and if what they are asking for will actually get them there. Often it will not. The conversation should instead be, here is where we'd ultimately like to be and what we'd like to have for capabilities, now lets talk about the best way to make that happen. Instead it's go do this. Now go do that. Now put this over here. Ok now give me the whole thing. What do you mean we can't do that because of the first two things we did? That's your problem, fix it.

Management often doesn't get the concept of just because one CAN do a thing, doesn't mean that one SHOULD do a thing.

"Chances are, you have little to no knowledge whatsoever about their job."

Chances are greater that they have less knowledge about what I do. The difference is, I'd be happy to sit there and let them explain to me anything they wanted that might help get the best solution developed, the same is not true in the other direction. Worse, many of them think they know your job. This is a verbatim quote from up high said to me: "Don't you think I know about server rooms? I've been in a server room before." Yeah, I've been in plenty of mechanic shops as well but I wouldn't claim to be able to know how to change out an engine in my car. The difference is, I'll admit that, management won't. The ego level is astounding sometimes. This coming from a person that doesn't know to check the surge strip on the floor if his computer doesn't turn on.

"This is why everyone hates I.T."

This is why I.T. hates condescending people that think they know everything, including how to do I.T.'s job when they have called for the 10th time in the last 3 months because they can't find a toolbar in Word. They treat I.T. like garbage and then they demand their respect. They don't have it. Treat them like people instead and it will be a completely different experience. Nobody has to bow down and worship at the throne of I.T. (yes I've met a few I.T. people that believe this, they should be fired), but don't treat them like dirt. Just about every person in I.T. that I've met that's got an attitude didn't have one when they started at their job. It was developed as a response to the way the rest of the organization treated them.

I've met I.T. managers at companies that I think would fit the description in this article. What they don't cover is the fact that nobody cares about I.T. unless something doesn't work. The rest of the org has no desire to hear about what I.T. thinks or what it's needs may be. I.T. is considered a barrier to them because someone (usually high up in the org) wasn't allowed to have bittorrent on their work laptop to download music at work, or they couldn't load a copy of their software from home (which they probably didn't own anyway) on their work computer. Now we're the bad guys. I'm more than happy to explain anything I do to anyone but usually it's met with the attitude of umm ok that's nice I've go to go. People don't care about our jobs and what we have to do all day. They only thing they care about is that they get everything that they want.

They don't even care about the rest of their company. I can't tell you how many times I've said something along the lines of...well yes technically I could do that for you but here's the problem, it won't scale up to fit the rest of the company and now I'll have this island system sitting out here for you, and perhaps for another department if they want to do something similar, and then well wind up with all of these disjoint systems that can't talk. We should really do this right and get it funded so we can make it work for everyone. The response I get back? I don't give a **** about everyone else I just want this for our department. If someone else wants it, that's their problem. What they don't get is that it's our problem. We're the ones expected to make all this work and we have to look at things from a full organization perspective. Most department managers could care less about what any other department needs or how what they want will affect the rest of the company.

People look down their noses at I.T. as being under them and then they complain when I.T. starts giving them the same level of respect. Suddenly it's our fault and our jobs to change. It's a holiday dinner, we're perpetually seated at the kids table while the adults talk about adult things and wave us off if we try and add something to the conversation as not being able to understand it or contribute to it and now we're faulted for not being a team player. Look in the mirror guys, you're a big part of the problem. The fix has to come from both sides.