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To: Non-Sequitur

One course of action which may help...

1. Do a system restore to a point prior to the virus activating.

2. Restart and make sure it is not active anymore.

3. Do a complete virus scan.

4. Turn off system restore. This will/should get rid of any files that are held in the recovery DB.

5. Restart.

6. Turn system restore back on.


8 posted on 01/02/2009 7:51:09 AM PST by SolidRedState (Someone finally found a spine and it is attached to an Alaskan Governor!)
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To: SolidRedState

Most of the new viruses disable System Restore. Also Windows Update. Also your virus scanner. Also access to antivirus websites.

For those of you not yet infected I recommend doing a backup of System State. This is equivalent to setting a System Restore point, but it can’t be disabled.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=302894
http://www.lwcomputing.com/tips/static/sysstate.asp


37 posted on 01/02/2009 8:27:12 AM PST by js1138
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