It was Stanley Baldwin who is first said to have quoted the phrase 'the bomber will always get through', this being used in 1932, in the speech "A Fear For The Future" to the British Parliament.
His words were proven to be fact in the later years and are today, just as true it seems, whether the bomb be delivered by plane or another means.
The sad fact of it all is that the same is true for computer viruses, no matter what defences you erect against them, they will eventually get through and make a right mess of your computer world.
Be sure on one thing here, I am talking from experience and from 'rubbing shoulders' with some of the top Computer Security guys over my years at the CCTA (Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency). Here their most telling comment about computer security was that "the only 100% defence was 6 inches of air" (i.e the system was not connected to anything - ever).
The other factor to remember is that the Virus protection software on your machine is always in 'catch up mode', it cannot ever protect you from a really brand new virus as it has not seen it before and hence cannot recognise it as a 'bad guy'. This is much the same in the world of medicine and we all have seen what a mess we make of fighting virus's there (even when they have been around for years).
So, what can you do about it?? The simplest and most complete solution is to make an 'Image' of your PC, BEFORE it gets any nasty's and make sure that you also make regular back ups of your data too.
That way, if your PC gets infected you can 'roll back' to an earlier version of your PC, pre the nasty virus, it being simply WIPED away when the PC's disc(s) has that old trusted version of you PC placed back on it. Sure you will lose some cookies etc that you had on the old machine, but overall much will be as it was, and all in a far faster time frame that getting rid of a determined virus (and less costly too, an IT man may well charge a few hundred pounds to remove a virus).
My advice, from one who has been infected (nasty it was) and has seen the pain of removal and the ease of the 'roll back' is to have a chat to your IT man and get an image of your PC straight away, the level of infections on the Net are rising all the time now, so don't waste time here.
By the way, in case you are wondering why I have taken the time from my normal Blogging about Marketing to speak on this, well, this is for three reasons.
Firstly, I have just been infected (for the first time in 9 years - and through a PDF at that !) and Secondly, having seen the ease of the roll back, as versus another machine in the business that took a day (and £400) to fix when it got zapped, I wanted all to hear what they could do.
The third reason is that by implementing the strategy outlined above, you are in effect, 'Giving Two Fingers' to the Virus producers (by taking all their 'fun' away) and that can't be a bad use of two fingers in my book.
More on Marketing soon...
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