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| Thread ID: 29387 | 2003-01-18 08:19:00 | I GOT A VIRUS AND AVG CAN MOVE IT TO VAULT..PLEASE HELP!! | TiM©:*) (977) | Press F1 |
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| 114963 | 2003-01-18 08:19:00 | I couldnt do scan disk, not even on safe mode so i did a virus scan with AVG and found a virus (trogen horse music search its called) and avg cant move it to vault or heal it, what shall i do? heres a screen shoot i took www.clanswat.orcon.net.nz (it may not work yet, having trouble uploading the pic) Tim |
TiM©:*) (977) | ||
| 114964 | 2003-01-18 08:29:00 | Its in your system restore, so its not going to affect anything unless you restore your system to an earlier date. Because its in the system restore, it cant be removed. Turn off system restore and reboot. That should erase the whole restore point. Then turn it back on again. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 114965 | 2003-01-18 08:35:00 | The file cannot be moved, cleaned, or deleted because it is in the 'C:\_RESTORE' folder, which, when enabled, Windows System Restore function keeps data in, hence why it can only be written or read by System Restore (or viruses, as I too found out from being infected by Nimda). This is a common issue when being infected by viruses, and to overcome it, you need to disable it. For information on how to do this, go to www.xtra.co.nz and see the section for Windows ME. Once System Restore is disabled (you might have to reboot your machine, can't remember), run another virus scan (if AVG allows it, only scan the 'C:\_RESTORE' folder, as long as you're confident that's not the only copy of the virus, or others, on your computer). You can then deal with it. I'd recommend first trying to heal it, though it may be a file created by the virus, and if healing fails, either delete it or put it in the "vault". Deleting it would probably be better, as if it can't be healed, there's almost no point in keeping it. |
agent (30) | ||
| 114966 | 2003-01-18 11:52:00 | I assume you are using WindowsME . If so follow below . Right Click My Computer > Properties > Performance > File System > TroubleShooting > Tick the box Disable System Restore > Apply/OK > Reboot at the prompt > Run AVG over the complete system . The above should now vault the virus from system restore . If you want to keep using System Restore follow the above but remove the tick in the Disable System Restore box and reboot to apply the change . |
duckyduck (197) | ||
| 114967 | 2003-01-19 00:10:00 | Thanks guys for your help, I got rid of the virus :*). My C drive used 6gigs of space, but since I disabled system restore its down to 2GIGS!!!!!!!! and scan disk works again. I don't believe that system restore took up so many space on my hdd :*) Tim |
TiM©:*) (977) | ||
| 114968 | 2003-01-19 04:48:00 | It won't be system restore using that much Tim. SR is part of the WinME OS and the OS is no more than 2GB. | Baldy (26) | ||
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