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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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EXAM TIP The 1002 exam objectives list system/application log errors as

a symptom. Some malware definitely leaves traces of what it’s up to in these

logs, and they can provide a wealth of information for discovering what the

malware was up to. You might catch it destabilizing programs, disabling

services that protect your system, or triggering warnings about resource use.

Patterns might even distinctly identify the malware. That said, you or your

users will almost certainly notice some other symptom before you go

trawling these logs for anything fishy.

Watch for security alerts in Windows, either from Windows’ built-in

security tools or from your third-party anti-malware program. Windows builtin

tools alert you via the Action Center or the Windows Defender Security

Center (Windows 10), which you learned about back in Chapter 16,

“Troubleshooting Operating Systems.” Figure 27-22 shows the older Action

Center. You don’t configure much here; it just tells you whether or not you

are protected. The Action Center or Security Center will pop up a notification

in the notification area whenever Windows detects a problem.

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