© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023
M. HalseyTroubleshooting and Supporting Windows 11https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8728-6_18

18. Virus and Malware Troubleshooting

Mike Halsey1  
(1)
Genouillac, France
 

Long gone are the days when getting a virus on your PC was annoying. As the world has become more connected, and as we’re doing more financial and official activities on our PCs, smartphones, and tablets, the risk has increased greatly. When we then factor in home and hybrid workers, and people using their own home PCs for workplace purposes, connecting to cloud services in which sensitive customer data is stored… you take my point.

All of this means that protecting a PC from malware and ...

Get Troubleshooting and Supporting Windows 11: Creating Robust, Reliable, Sustainable, and Secure Systems now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.