How to protect yourself from viruses: Tips and tricks
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Morgan Moore37 said:Honestly, you all are quite amusing, though I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that your entire troubleshooting repertoire seems to revolve around wiping a hard drive... it’s truly incredible how many people have wasted time formatting their entire system when the actual solution was sitting right in front of them, just waiting for someone with a bit more insight to notice it. It reminds me of a doctor who, instead of simply prescribing medication for a common infection, decides to roll up his sleeves and perform surgery just to achieve the same result... it’s a remarkably inefficient way to handle things. If you would just apply a little more critical thinking instead of reflexively suggesting a complete wipe, you might realize that nuking a drive is a last resort for when a system is completely dead, not a primary tactic for removing a virus. For instance, there are certain types of malware that hide within the file allocation tables, where nothing short of repartitioning—essentially destroying and rebuilding the table—will actually clear the infection. That is all I have to say for now, but I must admit, you haven't exactly convinced me that your collective intelligence outweighs my own...
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