Benefits and disadvantages.
When Deepfreeze is installed while the system is still clean, for example when newly installed, the system will remain clean after a reboot now matter what's happened during normal use. The Internet cache will remain empty, unauthorized deleted applications and files will return, changes to Internet Explorer disappears, worms, virus, spyware, yes..., all kind of malwares completely disappears after a reboot and the system simply remain as it were when newly installed. Weird right..?
If your computer have more than one partition or hard drive you can choose only to freeze the system drive (usually drive C:\) and let the other drives, after your choice, be thawed in normal state for easily saving files to them. When you want to make a change, such as install an application, you simply switch to normal mode, reboot and then do your stuff. Deepfreeze's configuration options are password protected to prevent unauthorized changes, so you're no longer need to worry about malwares or someone changing the system without yours, or your superiors approval
Deepfreeze work just fine installed on network connected workstations. We have tested the program on all kinds of Windows PC's with deferent systems such as Windows 98 SE and Windows Millennium (with flying desktops), Windows 2000 workstation, Windows XP connected to NT4 Primary Domain Controllers and connected to Windows 2000 and 2003 Domain Controllers with Active Directories.
However there are some disadvantages. Many people like to use Outlook Express for mailing. Depending how you setup Outlook it will download your mail from the mail server to the local computer and then empty your mail account on the server (can be changed in Outlook to keep the copy's on the server). If you don't make that change you will lose your mails forever. That goes for all other simultaneous mail applications to. The mail address book is still a problem since the frozen drive can't remember any changes.
A much better solution to work around this problem is to use Webmail instead of Outlook (the biggest problem by that is really not a technical one but to convince the scared and reluctant users to change the habits ;-D). Webmail never download or deleting anything before you tell it to do so which greatly reduce the danger from malware attacks, also without Deepfreeze installed, and the address book will always remain untouched.
You always need to remember that Deepfreeze is installed. if you forget and then make some changes to the desktop, installing some applications, stores some valuable documents or whatever involving the frozen drive, the changes will disappear forever after rebooting.
Deepfreeze has to be loaded in the system to work and will therefore not protect against user changes in BIOS. If you want BIOS to be protected you'll have to make a BIOS password. In most kind of PC's it's still very easy to delete the memory in CMOS and in that way remove the BIOS password. Neither will it protect against USB and CD/DVD booting's such as Win PE or Winternals ERD Commander. Persons that know what they are doing can still harm the system this way but they need to have physical access to the computer to do so.
When Deepfreeze is installed while the system is still clean, for example when newly installed, the system will remain clean after a reboot now matter what's happened during normal use. The Internet cache will remain empty, unauthorized deleted applications and files will return, changes to Internet Explorer disappears, worms, virus, spyware, yes..., all kind of malwares completely disappears after a reboot and the system simply remain as it were when newly installed. Weird right..?
If your computer have more than one partition or hard drive you can choose only to freeze the system drive (usually drive C:\) and let the other drives, after your choice, be thawed in normal state for easily saving files to them. When you want to make a change, such as install an application, you simply switch to normal mode, reboot and then do your stuff. Deepfreeze's configuration options are password protected to prevent unauthorized changes, so you're no longer need to worry about malwares or someone changing the system without yours, or your superiors approval
Deepfreeze work just fine installed on network connected workstations. We have tested the program on all kinds of Windows PC's with deferent systems such as Windows 98 SE and Windows Millennium (with flying desktops), Windows 2000 workstation, Windows XP connected to NT4 Primary Domain Controllers and connected to Windows 2000 and 2003 Domain Controllers with Active Directories.
However there are some disadvantages. Many people like to use Outlook Express for mailing. Depending how you setup Outlook it will download your mail from the mail server to the local computer and then empty your mail account on the server (can be changed in Outlook to keep the copy's on the server). If you don't make that change you will lose your mails forever. That goes for all other simultaneous mail applications to. The mail address book is still a problem since the frozen drive can't remember any changes.
A much better solution to work around this problem is to use Webmail instead of Outlook (the biggest problem by that is really not a technical one but to convince the scared and reluctant users to change the habits ;-D). Webmail never download or deleting anything before you tell it to do so which greatly reduce the danger from malware attacks, also without Deepfreeze installed, and the address book will always remain untouched.
You always need to remember that Deepfreeze is installed. if you forget and then make some changes to the desktop, installing some applications, stores some valuable documents or whatever involving the frozen drive, the changes will disappear forever after rebooting.
Deepfreeze has to be loaded in the system to work and will therefore not protect against user changes in BIOS. If you want BIOS to be protected you'll have to make a BIOS password. In most kind of PC's it's still very easy to delete the memory in CMOS and in that way remove the BIOS password. Neither will it protect against USB and CD/DVD booting's such as Win PE or Winternals ERD Commander. Persons that know what they are doing can still harm the system this way but they need to have physical access to the computer to do so.
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