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Doctoring that computer... time to keep your home pc healthy

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This poll is about the time you spend each month on fighting viruses, creating backups, performing updates and upgrades, configuring your firewall etc. etc.
Keeping your PC virus free (incl. scanning, updates, upgrades)?
0 hours / month
0 - 1 hours / month
1 - 2 hours / month
2 - 3 hours / month
3 - 4 hours / month
> 4 hours / month
Configuring and maintaining your firewall?
0 hours / month
0 - 1 hours / month
1 - 2 hours / month
2 - 3 hours / month
3 - 4 hours / month
> 4 hours / month
Keeping your PC free of spyware and adware?
0 hours / month
0 - 1 hours / month
1 - 2 hours / month
2 - 3 hours / month
3 - 4 hours / month
> 4 hours / month
Manual spam filtering and/or maintaining your spam filter?
0 hours / month
0 - 1 hours / month
1 - 2 hours / month
2 - 3 hours / month
3 - 4 hours / month
> 4 hours / month
Let's not forget about backups... time taken to create backups?
0 hours / month
0 - 1 hours / month
1 - 2 hours / month
2 - 3 hours / month
3 - 4 hours / month
> 4 hours / month
Keeping your pc properly connected to the internet, by tweaking your modem, internet settings, wifi or whatever?
0 hours / month
0 - 1 hours / month
1 - 2 hours / month
2 - 3 hours / month
3 - 4 hours / month
> 4 hours / month
Other general system maintenance: general configuration, updating, patching, and upgrading your system software, network and e-mail settings, etc.?
0 hours / month
0 - 1 hours / month
1 - 2 hours / month
2 - 3 hours / month
3 - 4 hours / month
> 4 hours / month
Cleaning up your pc, deleting old software, cookies, internet cache, incl. defragmenting
0 hours
0 - 1 hours
1 - 2 hours
2 - 3 hours
3 - 4 hours
> 4 hours
What kind of system is your home pc?
Windows XP
Other windows OS
UNIX distro
Linux distro
Mac OS X
Other Mac OS
How would you rate your knowledge and experience on keeping your PC healthy?
I was already lost on most of the questions above
I just click randomly and hope it will work
I know what I'm doing most of the time
I know exactly what to do to keep my PC healthy
This poll was created on 2005-12-18 16:02:23 by Hoef