Re: Zone Alarm, or...

Casey wrote:
I agree with:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/secmgmt/sm0504.mspx

What about installing disk image(s) that were made prior to the
machine being infected with malware. Seems that was overlooked in
their solutions.

The point in the suggested solutions is that you restore the system to a
known-good state, so yes, restoring from a known-good image is okay too.

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