Hi,
A Macrium image is not a standard compressed file. It can only be opened/mounted by Macrium itself.
It would not thrash the image because all possible changes made by a malware detection would be discarded as soon as the image is unmounted.
No, they are too large for any scanner to properly scan.
Do some basic disc cleanup and scan the system before backup.
In computer science, thrashing occurs when a computer's virtual memory resources are overused, leading to a constant state of paging and page faults, inhibiting most application-level processing.[1] This causes the performance of the computer to degrade or collapse. The situation can continue indefinitely until either the user closes some running applications or the active processes free up additional virtual memory resources.
That's only going to work on known viruses and malware. The security program isn't going remove any viruses or malware that it doesn't know exist. A scan of the mounted image before using it to do a restore could find threats that wasn't know at the time the image was made. If it does, then one can decide if they want to use it or look for an image that isn't infected.
I tried Malwarebytes on an image, and I can say that it didn't scan it. The scan took one second. I didn't actually time the scan on the mounted image but I do know it took way longer than one second.
That's only going to find known viruses and malware.
So in otherwards you think malware/viruses can infect backups? Unless you store the backup on the computer yes but if not then no unless I don't understand what you mean
No! that's not what I think. If a system is infected with a new virus or malware and they are not in the security programs database yet, how is the security program supposed the threat exist. Why do you think security programs are constantly getting new security updates.
