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I recently switched to Spideroak because I like their “zero-knowledge” privacy technology. Before that, I used iDrive for several years. I’d have to reinstall the software every now and then, but they got my family flawlessly through several disk drive failures and virus attacks.

FWIW: [Running Win 7 Pro.] Read today’s posting in WS about the Gadget security issue. Clicked the link in the article, arrived at MS support page. Clicked the “Disable Windows Sidebar and Gadgets” link. Downloaded and ran MicrosoftFixit50906.msi; rebooted. No problems. Copied the fixit file to my husband’s laptop, also Win 7 Pro. It appeared to install okay, but the system couldn’t reboot. It got as far as displaying the desktop background and a nonfunctional task bar, but couldn’t populate the desktop with anything. I’m thinking that it might be that his machine was running the Clock gadget, whereas my machine wasn’t running any gadgets. Had to go into Safe Mode and do a restore.