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Grandaman.com - Viruses & Spyware

Viruses suck. At work, we use CA Antivirus - not sure of my opinion of this but it wasn't my decision. At home, I use Sophos antivirus, and when I work on home user's PCs and they don't want to pay for antivirus, I usually install the free version of Avira Antivirus.

My rule of thumb is that antivirus programs help to keep out the viruses/virii? and if you do get an infection, I reinstall the OS. Now at home, I have my own personal server, so data is stored there, but for those that don't have this level of nerdyness, I copy their data to CD or some form of removable media, delete the partition, reinstall the OS, install A/V and spyware removal programs, and do a complete update on both the OS and other programs. Then and only then do I attempt to cop the data back. If anything is infected, then the A/V will pick it up. I've never had a re-infection from this process.














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