Help! have a spyware virus tryig to sytem restore but wont let me as it says topday is the only point it can restore to? how is this posssible! Can anyone help me I want to restore to a date before I had this viruse ie. last week!
thanks alot
2007-10-31 00:00:53 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Sounds like you turned system restore off and turned it back on, thus losing all your restore points. :-(
Some people here recommend that for *every* problem and you are an example of why I try to spread the word not to do that.
Now on to the problem at hand: there's no such thing as a spyware virus. So without knowing what you really have I would suggest that you run Superantispyware and A-Squared Free in safe mode...and since your system restore is already compromised, you may as well shut it off (just for the scans.)
Superantispyware: http://superantispyware.com/
A-Squared Free: http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
How to start in safe mode: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial61.html
After your system is clean, reboot and turn system restore back on.
Good luck.
2007-10-31 00:08:36 · answer #1 · answered by heebus_jeebus 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A lot of viruses will wipe all of your restore points to stop you remmoving them this way.
There are only two ways of getting rid of it
1. Use a decent anti virus software
2. Reformat your hard drive and reinstall the entire computer
Best thing is to have anti virus running all the time to stop the buggers coming through
2007-10-31 07:10:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Go to http://download.com and get the free anti-spyware program Spybot Seek & Destroy. It should clean the spyware for you.
There are several spywares that delete all of the restore points to prevent you from being able to use them to get rid of the spyware.
2007-10-31 07:13:40 · answer #3 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
personally I would just save any data you need and do a recovery from fresh either with the recovery disc that came with the pc or it's built in on hard drive
2007-10-31 07:06:00 · answer #4 · answered by josephrob2003 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah once your system has been compromised the only thing is to format your hard drive
system restore will not help you
2007-10-31 07:07:33 · answer #5 · answered by whatanidname 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-10-31 08:47:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋