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by robocat 1595 days ago
My own conclusion for the security of a small business was to set up a honeypot - a virus needs to search for vulnerabilities to transmit itself, and that search can be detected. Any virus that doesn’t search for vulnerabilities is much more benign.
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That might be how worms work, but it’s not going to protect someone from installing a keylogger or a RAT from opening an infected Excel spreadsheet in an email, for example.

That’s much more reactive than proactive either way. Better as a secondary measure for a large business than as a primary measure for a small business.