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Even better - make sure that everything is under version control or backed up so that in such a situation you can just reinstall from scratch without introducin

Even better - make sure that everything is under version control or backed up so that in such a situation you can just reinstall from scratch without introducing the possibility of "recovering" infected files.

ricardobeat 9y ago
There’s still the possibility that the infected files have been already committed to version control or backups, before it activated.
- jjnoakes 9y ago
  In which case you just roll them back to a pre-infection state, since you have history.
- mygo 9y ago
  great! with version control, you can see line-by-line where that infection was added... and when it was committed. Good!
empath75 9y ago
As a developer, my laptop could blow up at any point and I’d lose very little of importance. Maybe an hours worth of work at most. My real concern would be them grabbing secrets, not losing any data.