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Old 04-04-06, 02:22 PM #1
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Default Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible

I reserve the right to find this funny and worthy of being posted in this forum rather than in General Discussion.

For those not aware, in the sysadmin field of work, it is assumed to be common sense to re-install the OS upon any breach of security regardless of how "minor" the effect is percieved to be because... and to quote the fine article...

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If it doesn't crash your system or cause your system to freeze, how do you know it's there? The answer is you just don't know.
*looks at his watch*

What year is it? 2006... right...

Anyways, there's lots of sound information in that article. Well worth the read!
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