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To: rrufff who wrote (47487)	8/27/2005 11:40:43 AM
From: ILCUL8R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110626

What do you mean by "unprotect" a drive? Are you referring to pausing ZA and NAV software? Malware (virus, worm, trojan) typically is directed to attack portions of the operating system and sometimes the boot drive sector -- files the perpetrator knows exists on all machines with a particular operating system (usually Windows XP). Malware does not "infect" every file in all partitions on all hard drives. Using two separate hard drives can improve performance, especially for large file disk intensive operations, such as ripping and burning music files, etc. A hard drive has one set of record/read heads and to ask this set of heads to do everything on different partitions on the same hard drive makes them work really hard. It is better to, say, read from one hard drive and write to a 2nd hard drive. This way you split the load between two sets of heads. Some even use a small fast drive to hold the OS Swap File thus separating it from the partition that holds the OS and applications software folders. It is faster to move data on the buss than have one set of heads bounce back and forth amongst many many folders or partitions on the same drive. If you worked behind a hardware firewall (router) you would not have to depend so heavily on NAV and ZA thus improving performance. Is there a security-performance issue in partitioning or even with multiple drives? I have a very high level of security, plus NAV and ZA pro. My computer's performance is notably slowed by my internet paranoia. My question is this: Can I "unprotect" a drive or a partition and use that strictly for my internet operations? I imagine the answer is "no," but hoped that an expert such as yourself and others may have a different answer. I suspect that if a worm, trojan or virus gets on one's machine, no drive or partition is safe.