I am considering signing up for Carbonite ($59 Unlimited) but I have all my financial information on my computer (Basically gone paperless). Including my scanned in statements, user names and passwords etc. It's the user names, passwords, security questions that have me going crazy, as along with bank accounts, brokerage accounts, on line bill web sites, it's a bit much to keep track of. I do use RoboForm but some sites won't allow use of RoboForm. Also if I lose my computer, that won't do me any good to remember all those username and passwords.
I am leary of course of hacking, but it is also a safety measure as well if I were to lose my computer and portable hard drive that I take with me when I travel my goose would be cooked. This almost happened to me on a flight. Someone on the plane took my computer case (along with back up drive) from the overhead bin by mistake. Talk about panic attacks. Fortunately I was able to retrieve it.
I Googled Carbonite Safety, and only found one critic.
Any thoughts.
I also purchased a password and encryption software program to try and add some protection to sensitive files, but when I encrypted them before a trip and then tried to decrypt them when I arrived, I was unable to do so, and lost a lot of files. Anyone using a password third party software program for password protecting certain files?
Also, I wonder if you were to password protect some files with third party software and signed up with Carbonite, I wonder if Carbonite would be able to backup those files that you use password protect for?
I am leary of course of hacking, but it is also a safety measure as well if I were to lose my computer and portable hard drive that I take with me when I travel my goose would be cooked. This almost happened to me on a flight. Someone on the plane took my computer case (along with back up drive) from the overhead bin by mistake. Talk about panic attacks. Fortunately I was able to retrieve it.
I Googled Carbonite Safety, and only found one critic.
Any thoughts.
I also purchased a password and encryption software program to try and add some protection to sensitive files, but when I encrypted them before a trip and then tried to decrypt them when I arrived, I was unable to do so, and lost a lot of files. Anyone using a password third party software program for password protecting certain files?
Also, I wonder if you were to password protect some files with third party software and signed up with Carbonite, I wonder if Carbonite would be able to backup those files that you use password protect for?