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Old 02-17-2010, 11:20 PM
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Originally Posted by pawoSD View Post
FYI, 95% of the stuff out there gets past those free "ISP Provided" scanner programs. They are pretty much worthless and just slow down the machine.
x2 on everything you just said.

I work in educational IT which is just so much worse.

Running MWB is a surefire way to remove most malware, but seriously sometimes the only to be sure is to literally nuke it from low earth orbit (reformat).

On my own computer I backup regularly. On user's computers I instruct them to back up to their network share. My mantra is always, "We can't guarantee the safety of your data if you don't save onto the network."

Regardless I want to be 100% sure that there isn't any trace of the crap leftover and the only way is to re image the machine.
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