On Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at 5:14:17 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 16:32:25 -0500, Ralph Mowery
wrote:

In article ,
says...



It is really just as easy to avoid keeping anything you are worried
about off of your "browsing" PC and keep it well backed up. Do things
like your taxes on your air gapped machine. Most "hacks" are usually
things you clicked on and opened that you should not have.


Sort of hard to do taxes on an air gapped machine as the tax program
needs many updates. I use a computer to pay many bills, so hard to keep
that off the internet. I do use some external hard dirves for storage of
pix and other things I do not want to use. Thinking of switching to a
usb drive as the price keep comming down. Often burn them to a DVD.
Hard for a hack to mess that up.

You can't update the program on your connected machine and then move
it to the air gapped one?

It's been decades, if ever that you could do that with most programs.



I am surprised the tax folks don't give you the updates as a flat file
you can install anywhere.

I guess you haven't installed many programs.
They run an install process that installs it, checks for updates as part of that. When it's done I can't begin to imagine how you'd then move that to another system. That pretty much went away with MSDOS.