Reflecting on Home PCs: Malware Removal
Posted on Dec 11th, 2008
There’s two schools of thought regarding how to do security clean-ups. One: backup data (or preferably not), format, reinstall. Two: remove all malware, replace corrupted files. The difficulty is that both schools have inherent advantages and disadvantages. While the first is virtually fool proof, it means reinstalling applications, cleaning through backed up data anyway, and [...]