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A help desk technician is troubleshooting a workstation in a SOHO environment that is running above normal system baselines. The technician discovers an unknown executable with a random string name running on the system. The technician terminates the process, and the system returns to normal operation. The technician thinks the issue was an infected file, but the antivirus is not detecting a threat. The technician is concerned other machines may be infected with this unknown virus. Which of the following is the MOST effective way to check other machines on the network for this unknown threat?
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The network being a SOHO environment is important here because manually checking each machine wouldn't really be practical in a large network, since it would be time-consuming. Since an enterprise would likely deploy the same AV across a network, you could send a sample to an AV vendor where they could create detection signatures that the vendor can use to update the AV agents deployed across a network. Again, not really something a small network would find necessary.
Adapted from community discussion by rodwave · 2023-07-28 · 6 community upvotes. Third-party contribution; reviewed by our quality filter, not independently verified.