Avoiding Computer Viruses On Your Store POS System
It seems as though if somebody uses the internet for finding parts or any other application, sooner or later they are going to get a computer virus. I myself misspelled the name of a web site a few years ago. Immediately, a porno site flashed on the screen and my antivirus program started screaming at me to shut down the internet connection because I was being attacked by a virus. I turned off the power on the computer but had visions of losing all of my information on that computer. I was lucky that time because the antivirus program worked that time. Another instance a few years later and it did not work. A while back I remember reading that somebody hacked into a Microsoft web site in South Korea. It seems to me that if Billy Gates can't protect his own web site, the rest of us are vulnerable. The only way to be safe is to not use your computer on the internet. We at MIB use that notion to take a slightly different path to internet security. We strongly recommend to our customers that their Store POS System's server is never used on the internet. However, each of their MIB work stations can do double duty as an MIB work station and have internet access. Moreover, the MIB work stations communicate with the server via serial connections. This means that a virus that reaches a work station can't infect the server. The worst case is that a work station is infected. In that case you merely reformat the hard drive on the work station and reinstall the operating system. No important information is lost and the only inconvenience is losing use of a work station for roughly an hour.Labels: Computer Virus, Internet Access, Store POS System
posted by MIB @ 1:13 PM
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