Star Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Apr 2006 18:53 UTC
Privacy, Security, Encryption In a rare discussion on the severity of the Windows malware scourge, a Microsoft security official said businesses should consider investing in an automated process to wipe hard drives and reinstall operating systems as a practical way to recover from malware infestation. "When you are dealing with rootkits and some advanced spyware programs, the only solution is to rebuild from scratch. In some cases, there really is no way to recover without nuking the systems from orbit."
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Jarsto
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2005-10-06

"I thought people write viruses to cause big impact. What would they get by trying to infect <5% of total desktops that too when 90% of them are run by tech savvy people?"

What would they get by trying to infect Google?

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