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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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back up safely into service. The 1002 exam outlines the following multistep

process as the best practice procedures for malware removal:

1. Identify and research malware symptoms.

2. Quarantine the infected systems.

3. Disable System Restore (in Windows).

4. Remediate the infected systems.

A. Update the anti-malware software.

B. Scan and use removal techniques (Safe Mode, Preinstallation

Environment).

5. Schedule scans and run updates.

6. Enable System Restore and create a restore point (in Windows).

7. Educate the end user.

EXAM TIP In addition to this malware removal process, the 1002

objectives also mention Backup/restore as another way to make sure your

system is malware-free—just restore a full system backup (in Windows, you

can take or restore one with the Backup and Restore utility). There are

hurdles to using this approach.

You must have space to store one or more full backups, plan far enough

ahead to have one or more recent backup available, know at least one is

malware-free, and be prepared to either back up user files/data separately or

lose any created/modified since the last backup. You won’t always have this

option, but a good way to get started is backing up user files and data

separately and taking a full backup of the system itself once you have all of

the software you need installed and configured.

Recognize and Quarantine The first step is to identify and recognize that a

potential malware outbreak has occurred. If you’re monitoring network traffic

and one computer starts spewing e-mail, that’s a good indicator of malware.

Or users might complain that a computer that was running snappily the day

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