There is a misconception among many that what's on their hard disk will be there tomorrow. Your post could be the springboard to the wider problem.
In short, if such does find its way on my machine, I can with very little real loss other than time, wipe the drive, install the OS, a driver disk, a BLASTER patch and with a cheat sheet be back online.
Then the backups are pulled and files reloaded. Applications are things I add as I need them.
In short, what is the disaster plan?
Bob
I've been helping a friend recover from a Trojan infection that was discovered during the install of Win XP Home.
During this process it made me reflect on my on PC setup. I am very faithful about keeping my NAV updated and scans run. Same for my firewall and my spy software (AdAware and Spybot). But here is my question:
If I somehow get a virus of some sort on my PC and it blocks my access to the internet (as my friends situation was) and access to NAV scanning, how do I scan my PC for the virus.
Under previous versions of NAV you could create Rescue disks so that you could scan your PC at start up. But NAV does not have that feature on XP. So what do you do?
This may seem like a silly question to some but after helping my friend this week I have found it to be a very possible scenario and was wondering what better minds than mine think about this.
Thanks.

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