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Apocalypse Now!
LockedHad something in the way of a fright this weekend, my three mobile users were all bunched in a single hotel room and decided to do their work from the hotel room.
No problem, VPN works wonderfully. Somehow or other, one of the computers came back as thoroughly infected with malware as a common street whore with syphilis (to paraphrase Schopenhauer).
I got it all fixed up, but realized there was a possibility of serious problems. For a network which relies heavily on mobile users, the possibility of an infected computer with a self-replicating virus being plugged back into the LAN is pretty unnerving.
I’m curious if anyone has any suggestions on how to recover from a total network infection. Containment is already being implemented, but this is a “what if” scenario.
Imagine you walk in on a Monday morning to a thriving culture of viruses on both your networks (LAN, mail, FTP…the works). What would you do?