The industry journal eWeek.com recently reported on a session at InfoSec World Conference & Expo 2006 in Florida, by Mike Danseglio, Program Manager in the Security Solutions Group at Microsoft.

Mike was describing "rootkits", which are a way in which viruses and other malicious programs can hide themselves deep within the operating system. Once infected, not only are they extremely difficult to detect, they are almost impossible to remove. Indeed he even went as far as saying that "When you are dealing with rootkits and some advanced spyware programs, the only solution is to rebuild from scratch. In some cases, there really is no way to recover without nuking the systems from orbit"

Back in October 2005, Mike also wrote a TechNet article saying "The best reaction to an identified rootkit is to wipe and reinstall the system. Although drastic, this is the only proven method to completely remove rootkits."

Traditionally, this wipe and reinstall has meant reverting back to the installation CDs, or restoring a clone image and then manually configuring it to requirements on a per-PC basis.

However, there is a far better way with net-runna Enterprise.

By the use of a simple mouse click, the press of a button, or even automatically at every boot, the entire operating system plus applications can be restored to a known, individually configured working state in a few minutes.

You can bet that the "unnamed branch of the U.S. government" cited by Mike, with 2,000 infected machines, wishes that it had been using net-runna Enterprise. According to a senior official in Microsoft's security unit, more than 20% of all malware currently being removed from Windows XP SP2 systems are stealth rootkits, which means that the problem can only get worse – unless you have net-runna Enterprise!

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