One of the lessons they learn is that a recent backup can save them from almost any problem - including malware. Most people don’t begin backing up until after they’ve experienced data loss or a severe malware infection. Unfortunately, most people don’t have this option available. Simply restore your machine completely from the most recent full system backup, plus any incremental backups (often handled transparently by your backup software), taken before the infection occurred.Įxcept for learning from the experience, you’re done. If you’ve been taking regular backups, this is the most expedient step, and can save a lot of time and energy.
With this backup at the ready, you can always restore and start over with nothing lost. Some of the techniques we use to remove malware run the risk of breaking things and making the situation worse. Why would you want to back up a system you know is infected with malware?Ī backup taken now is an “it-can’t-get-any-worse-than-this” fallback. My strong recommendation is you start by taking a complete image backup of your system. Let’s look at what to do when prevention has failed.
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Knowing how to stay safe on the internet is much, much easier in comparison. Prevention is much less painful than the cure.Īs we’ll see shortly, the steps to remove malware can be painful and time consuming. If there’s one thing I would have you take away from this, it would be this: Prevention, and preparation in the form of a backup, are by far the easiest solutions.Give up: backup, reformat, and reinstall everything from scratch.Look for removal instructions specific to the malware you have, if possible.Update your security software database and run full scans of your disks.
Restore to backups taken prior to the infection if you can.Back up the infected machine for an additional safety net and data recovery later.
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