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What? You have to start from scratch to trust the machine again, don’t you? So if you’re pulling backups anyway...

• Wowfunhappy 6y ago
  ...that is a good point, perhaps I didn’t think it through all the way.
• skoskie 6y ago
  This. The whole network and everything on it are getting nuked. And due to the delay these things have, you have to assume the backup may restore the malware. Everything gets a clean install and only non-binaries get restored from backup.
  • Wowfunhappy 6y ago
    > Everything gets a clean install and only non-binaries get restored from backup. I can do that more easily if I don't loose ~2–3 days of work though (or whatever amount of time has passed since the last offline backup). Even if I need to manually go through the documents so that only non-binaries are restored, just having them would probably be helpful. I don't know, I guess it depends a lot on the actual situation: what I was working on at the time, etc. But that $50 price tag seems alluring.