5 step plan of how to deal with malware

Here are five step plan of how to deal with malware.

  1. Recognize. This is the essential step in order to know what you are dealing with and which actions need to be taken. You may need to read information in the Internet in order to know what is it and how to deal with it.
  2. Quarantine. If system is infected then discounting it from network is a good second step. By doing so it will not infect other systems in the network and will not receive commands from the manager of malware.
  3. It is needed to find all infected or dangerous files. It can be done via updating antivirus software or by reading information about this malware.
  4. Next step is to prevent this activity from happening again.
  5. Educate other users of what has happened and why. What needs to be done differently next time to prevent this issue from happening again.

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