Tomo Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Disabling updates will make your computer more open to viruses etc...Only if it sees the internet.And why does a playback machine ever need to see the internet? Everything should come from machines with up-to-date virus scanners which keeps the inbound data as clean as possible. An even better solution is to re-image the HDD before each production - set up the system with all the playback stuff you need, then use Norton Ghost or similar to make a clone of the hard disk.Then no matter what a client does to the machine, you can *always* get it back to exactly where it was before they saw it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest minisrule192 Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Do you trust everything that needs showing to be virus free? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 No. But I don't care.If their machine hasn't already died, then it probably won't kill my playback PC very quickly.If they are corporate, then they will be running up-to-date anti-virus - probably more up-to-date than the one I'd have on a playback machine that spends a lot of time sat in a flightcase. Re-imaging the HDD with my clean Ghost image will always kill any rubbish that came on.Anti-virus software doesn't catch everything - it's impossible, because A/V is always playing catch-up on virus writers. I would rather trust a machine that isn't running unexpected rubbish, than A/V which is not fully up-to-date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jivemaster Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 When loading music on an unprotected lappy I check the disc by "scan this item" in my main, up-to-date A/V home computer, before putting it into the lappy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Remo Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 One thing I've had problems with is the Ir ports "chatting" to each other on two adjacent laptops mid show, powerpoint is still overlaid as top "window", but I lost control as the top window is no longer the app being controlled by the keyboard. As all machines had their audio muted it took a while to work out what the issue was. More hardware than software but one to watch out for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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