On Feb 1, 12:56, "Smith, Dean" wrote:

>> " I've just discovered my machine is badly infected by the xyz virus and I
>> need to wipe-out my hard disk, re-partition, re-format and restore it
>> as of the day before I tried that new wiz-bang ShareWare game my daughter
>> gave me."

>1)  Shouldn't they be using a virus protection facility?  If not, why not.
>Using backups as a virus protection facility more expensive and time
consuming
>than using a virus protection facility.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that ADSM backups are a virus protection
facility.  That's just one reason why a site might need to go back to a known
state in the past without knowing in advance that they were going to need to
do tha

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