Windows Virus and Malware Troubleshooting

© Andrew Bettany and Mike Halsey 2017

Andrew Bettany and Mike Halsey, Windows Virus and Malware Troubleshooting , 10.1007/978-1-4842-2607-0_2

2. Prevention and Defense

Andrew Bettany¹  and Mike Halsey²

(1)Microsoft, York, North Yorkshire, UK

(2)Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK

I stated in the previous chapter that there are two main things that you can do, as an IT professional, to defend your systems against malware. One is to make it as difficult as possible for users to install malware on your systems or to transfer malware-infected files onto your storage servers. This is achieved by using a combination of technologies, processes, and strategies that together can make malware infection difficult.

The other is to train staff in the different types ...