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As I’m heading to BlogHer this week, I will be featuring a 3 part article from BitMoms and BitDefender. As a BitMom, I will be featuring monthly articles written by BitDefender experts.
August signifies the winding down of summer and the fresh school year. This year as you shop for back to school items, check your family computer to ensure that your antivirus software is current and can safeguard your machine from potential viruses that can come from opening infected files at home and school.
These days, students have a myriad of ways they can create and save documents to be accessed in multiple locations but each has its benefits and risks. Here’s a quick run down of the top 3 ways students save files along with the pros and cons of each.
1. USB flash drives
USB flash drives are removable and rewriteable portable storage devices that plug into a USB port. The come in a variety of different styles, range in their storage capacity, and are widely available.
Pros: The small size of USB drives makes them easy to attach to a backpack, keychain, or slip into a pocket. They also durable due to the lack of moving parts and tend to be quite reliable for accessing documents over an extended period of time. They are available in a wide range of sizes.
Cons: While the size and portability of USB drives is appealing, they are also easily misplaced. Not only does it cost money to replace them but data is often lost unless a regular backup is done to store documents on the home computer. USB drives have a fairly long life but can also die without warning rendering all data on the drive inaccessible. USB drives can also be infected with viruses living on the host computers they are plugged into and be a way to unknowingly install viruses on your home computer.
Tomorrow in part 2, we will look at emailing as a way to share documents.
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This article was provided as exclusive content by BitDefender because of my role as a BitMom Blog Network Member. No compensation was received for sharing this post however; BitMoms is providing me with a blog conference stipend and other materials to help me facilitate sharing topics of internet safety and security with my readers and through the BitMom Community.
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