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RE: Real Time Antivirus on workstations


From: "Aditya Deshmukh" <aditya.deshmukh () online gateway strangled net>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 08:47:23 +0530

I haven't used Norton GoBack (and the website is short on 
details), but
I'm assuming it's similar to Microsoft's System Restore.  If you set a
real-time antivirus program to scan only on writes, then resource
utilization would probably approach that of GoBack.

From another perspective, what happens if a virus decides to overwrite
the GoBack file archive?  Food for thought, I guess.

Maybe a better solution is to use norton ghost and keep the data on a 
separate  "DATA" partition. 

Anytime the machine gets infected just restore the ghost image.


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