warpmedia wrote:
This is not surrender, it's the current state of things. Why go through
a process that you can't guaranty?
At least if you backup everything, reformat/reinstall & then restore
only what is "assumed" to be data you're narrowing down the field quite
a bit and also removing the potential for a cloaked active or unknown
virus.
If "viruses can hide in apparent data files" then using your method
there is even more untrusted files to scan & miss plus the potential for
active infection cloaking itself.
One way is now a hit-or-miss hack job, the other the proper solution.
It's not a academic exercise, it's a job, there is no reason to spend
time and still not be certain you've done the job right.
Aren't you liable to carry the virus with you into the backup?
Sam
