Question

What are some of the best practices for Malware removal? How are they implemented in companies?

Answer 1

Malware is the primary cause for the service interruption and performance degradation in modern computer systems everywhere.Therefore detecting these and removing these becomes primary importance to avoid affecting critical resources.

This can be done by isolating the device from the external network by using private network and a router to communicate with the external address,Monitoring the activities in the network like traffic flow etc.

Upgrading of the antivirus also plays an important role in detecting and removing these.Once the malware is detected the first approach is to quarantine the affected devices from the network such that the malware cannot affect other computers.Also the devices which are being connected to the affected device such as pendrive,Hard disk etc can be quarantined so that the malware cannot spread to other devices.

After isolating the necessary resources formatting the device and running the Antivirus scanner can help to mitigate the issue.

Companies usually try to isolate the device as mentioned before once malware is found on that machine, and try to target the removal either by running custom scans in the device and as well as the network to reove these from the system.