Which Files Were Affected by a Hack or Malware?
❌ You can't necessarily scan your way back to safety after a hack. Once a hacker's had access to your machine, there's no guaranteed way to know everything they touched. I'll discuss why backups, not scans, are your best defense, and what to do if you don't have one.❌ After a hack
- You cannot tell with certainty what a hack or malware may have affected.
- The most common approach is to run repeated anti-malware scans.
- The best solution is to revert to an image backup taken before the hack.
- The painful solution is to reinstall and start over.
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0:00 Which Files Were Affected by a Hack?
0:48 Hack fallout
1:24 Traditional solutions
2:07 Pragmatic solution #1: backup to the rescue
2:55 Pragmatic solution #2: backup, reformat, reinstall
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