As I said to the boss the other day when he asked if we wanted a final backup of the Windows 2000 Server we were decommissioning. Now where I first heard this saying, is lost in the mists of time. If pressed, I’d say some sort of security briefing.
Regardless, it expresses what I think about backups very well. And I was reminded of it the other day. I was copying some files from one backup drive to another, and McAfee chirped in with
“Potentially Unwanted Program??” What the ???
Windows Enabler was a utility I used some years ago, which I’d forgotten about. I tend to hoard these utilities in case I ever need them again. I was greatly annoyed that McAfee decided to delete this utility for the reason “Potentially Unwanted Program”.
I ended up recovering the deleted files from CD backup.