On bases of this I think this definitely more applys to viruses/werms rather
than just spyware, if a file is infected with a virus, especially if it's a
windows file, if system restore is not turned off once you reboot the file
may reapeare, but I don't think this applys for things that likes of spybot
would remove.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sunil" <bosley20@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 4:13 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: XP System Restore
I'm honestly not sure how worthwhile it is, I'm just going on something I read in a forum which I pasted below - when my system was riddled with malware and I was trying to clean it all out. Having said that I'm beginning to think that the kind of nerds and geeks who inhabit technical forums probably over-exaggerate the seriousness of spyware and its probably not that important to disable system restore. Here's why I said it though, this isn't Spybot info so the reasoning might not even apply anyway:
Windows Millennium Edition (ME) and Windows XP have a feature known as System Restore, which creates backups of certain files in the _Restore folder. The
System Restore feature usually backs up files with EXE or COM extensions, which may include infected files and malware programs. Files in the _Restore
folder are protected and can only be accessed using System Restore. This feature must be disabled first before Trend Micro antivirus can access and clean
these files.
threats out . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Harrison" <harrisondf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 3:44 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: XP System Restore
Thanks Sunil, but I am not sure that I understand your point. Do you mean that it would
be better to create a restore point manually before running Spybotsd rather than let it
create one? In the event of Spybotsd Fixing problems and having unexpected
consequences I think that having a recent Restore Point is a good idea.
Douglas
On 23 May 2005 at 13:23, Sunil wrote:
Haven't a clue about that but I think its worth disabling system restore when you run a Spybot scan.
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Douglas Harrison
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