Keeping files secure while sharing

[Guest]

How do I store all my files on my website and still keep my files secure
while using sharing?

 

[cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:36:00 -0700, DEBNC

How do I store all my files on my website

Do you mean...

1) Store my PC's files on my web site

....or...

2) Store my website's files on my PC

....?

If (1), then you're trusting whoever maintains the site (which is
already facing the 'net) to secure and preserve them. That is not
where I'd place any bets at all.

If (2), that's trickier, as the site shouldn't allow direct ftp access
or you don't have such an arrangement. You can visit each page and
save to disk, or use a site ripper that will follow and pull down all
internal links, but there may be "back-end" stuff you'd miss.

and still keep my files secure while using sharing?

I share as little as possible, and full-share (i.e. allowing writes)
even less, and I kill the "hidden" admin shares that XP Pro waves at
"the network" if your account password is not blank.

Specifically, I do not full-share any locations containing code files
(to avoid LAN-hopping generic code-infecting viruses) or any part of
the startup axis (so malware can't write itself to start with the OS).

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[Guest]

I lost all my data and have gotten some of it back with restore. My restores
keep disappearing although my multi anti-malware programs can find nothing.
My C drive crashed and as fast as I reinstall Windows it crashes again. I
need to put all my files somewhere while I reformat my C drive. My backups
also either disappears are will not reinstall although I took ownership of
them and permissions. I am going to lose everything if I don't do something
fast. It is a 1.6 Gb hard drive and my other drive is a 20 MB hard drive so
that is not an option and I have no money to buy anything but I do have a
website I own.
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