I opened a questionable e-mail and when I did it downloaded 33 pictures to who knows where. I ran my spyware and my virus programs and they found nothing. If I restore my computer to the previous back up save will that eliminate whatever it was that got downloaded today????
2007-01-01 09:23:28 · 8 answers · asked by treeman 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Yes - You are done.
Recovery is the easiest way.
Actually spy-ware and viruses try to get into autostart.
Throw them out of there and You are done no matter whether the files are still on Your HDD or not.
Delete the actual files also ( if You have not already ) - but if You cannot find them it does not matter much.
2007-01-01 09:31:17 · answer #1 · answered by Yttl 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm amazed that you know it downloaded 33 pictures.
It could have disabled either your virus/spyware programs. If by restoring to a previous backup you mean that you created a disk-image and you will replace your current disk-image with the previous one then that should work. Norton Ghost is an example of such a disk image creation software, and I've never heard of a virus corrupting Norton Ghost's (or any other disk image restoration sw).
I wouldn't trust anything less than a disk-image restoration.
What I would be doing is downloading the spyware and virus software onto a CD from a known non-infected machine, so I could run them from there. I would also run autoruns from sysinternal to check for things in the auto-start sequence.
2007-01-01 09:37:27 · answer #2 · answered by giraffe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
System Restore is a waste of space in my opinion, it's the first thing I disabled in my new PC. The answer to your question is NO, restoring won't help. Do some online scans with a couple of good anti viruses and be sure to disable system restore prior to scanning.
This page has some links to free online scans:
http://www.whiskeybentandhellbound.com/onlinescanlinks.html
2007-01-01 17:12:32 · answer #3 · answered by __]-[ELLBOUN])__ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have down loaded and saved in a file it will not be undone by system restore. You have to delete such files.System retore will restore only softwarechanges maded to the system. System restore only helps you to restore the computer to an older working configuration. Detailed instructions are posted at http://fixit.in/systemrestore.html
2007-01-01 18:15:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think the XP resore gets rid of files, only programs that were installed. You can probably find the pictures that were downloaded by searching on *.gif and use the date option also. Good luck
2007-01-01 09:35:25 · answer #5 · answered by JohnT 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It will undo all softwars that you might have downloaded.You have to carefully select the date of restore. Ensure that the PC was functioning normally on the selected point for restoration. If you want to know an effective procedure for system restore please visit the following site.
http://tinyurl.com/ylr2cl
2007-01-05 01:17:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dought it! you should use this free tool, it should get rid of them. http://spywareterminator.com and this free tool will help also http://www.iobit.com make sure you run the updates after download to have the curent data base. good luck.
2007-01-01 09:33:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it will......
2007-01-01 09:36:49 · answer #8 · answered by Taba 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋