[pchelpers] Re: Protected infection in system volume folder

  • From: John Durham <john.modec@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:52:44 +1300

Ekhart GEORGI (last name last) wrote:
> Hi George
> 
>> Did you know that the System Volume folder is where your system's
>> Restore Points are stored? I apologize for not realizing this before
>> now. The simplest way to handle this would have been to turn off System
>> Restore temporarily, turn it back on, and then create a new Restore
>> Point of your freshly cleaned system.
> 
> You mean the System Volume Information folder, whereas John was talking 
> about a folder called simply "system" located in d:\system.
> 
> On the other hand, i just now noticed that John wrote in the subject of 
> the thread a different name, "system volume folder"
> 
> I also just remembered that the folder called "system" is in the Windows 
> folder and not the root folder in XP (which i seem to remember John is 
> using though he didn't say).
> 
> Just what folder are you talking about, John?
> 
> 
D:/System volume information
C:/System volume information
(the folder on C: claims to be empty)

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