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Article #3046Disinfection (Was: Re: more network security)
From: Fridrik Skulason
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 10:18
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 10:18
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Vesselin Bontchev writes:
>As a conclusion, it is a bad idea to rely on virus disinfectors.
>Just delete the infected programs and replace them with clean
>backup copies.
Well, that is the "best" solution from many points of view - but there are
two practical problems:
1) Many (most ?) users don't keep decent backups.
2) It takes a lot less time and effort to run a disinfector than to
restore all files from a backup.
- -frisk
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