At my various clients, I have somewhere over a hundred computers to
maintain. Viruses show up primarily from someone clicking on infected
email, or going to a dangerous web site. Other computers have been infected
from outside by a malware that invaded that computer which had no antivirus
program. When a decent antivirus program suce as McAfee, Symantec or Panda
is installed and kept current, very rarely is that infected. Other things
that really help are better quality routers such as Sonicwall TZ-210. While
it is somewhat expensive on a yearly basis, it does seem to prevent the
invasions.
When I have to deal with an infected computer, I usually will restart using
a Linux-based Knoppix CD to work on it. Can't infect a CD.
Doing a backup to a separate storage does help a lot, and having an
antivirus program scan the infected hard drive separately on a different
computer also helps recover it.
Craig Healy
Providence, RI
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