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Point of No Return? Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impo ssible
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 16:14:14 GMT
Interesting. Via eWeek. [snip] 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 malware-infested operating systems. "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," Mike Danseglio, program manager in the Security Solutions group at Microsoft, said in a presentation at the InfoSec World conference here. [snip] More: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1945782,00.asp - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: Point of No Return? Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impo ssible Nick FitzGerald (Apr 05)
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