RE: Real Time Antivirus on workstations

From: Aditya Deshmukh (aditya.deshmukh_at_online.gateway.strangled.net)
Date: 11/24/05

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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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