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Straight Talk
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:35:37 -0400, "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
wrote:
>Straight Talk wrote:
>> Trial and error against malware is a common but very stupid approach.
>
>Nonsense.
Not really.
>It depends entirely on the severity of the infestation.
Precisely. A severity you cannot determine without having a baseline.
>I won't spend hours and hours on a troubled workstation, but if I can pretty easily
>remove a not-very-invasive piece of malware or two, I simply do so.
And how exactly do you verify that the machine is now back in a
reliable state?
wrote:
>Straight Talk wrote:
>> Trial and error against malware is a common but very stupid approach.
>
>Nonsense.
Not really.
>It depends entirely on the severity of the infestation.
Precisely. A severity you cannot determine without having a baseline.
>I won't spend hours and hours on a troubled workstation, but if I can pretty easily
>remove a not-very-invasive piece of malware or two, I simply do so.
And how exactly do you verify that the machine is now back in a
reliable state?