What is a footprint Rick? Is that when you manually create a new restore point? cia, cristy ----- Original Message ----- From: "DH (Rick) Holmes" <hayvan2@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 2:03 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: AV quarenteen >I did not intend that meaning, no. But if you get a virus that becomed > resident in your sysrest files, the only way to rid those files of that > virus is to disable SystemRestore. This inevitably means that you lose > all of the 'footprints' that SysRest has made. This aspect is the > disadvantage, but after disabling and doing a scan, be sure to > immediately create a new footprint in System Restore. I have used > SysRest many times in WinMe particularly and to my entire satisfaction. > But disabling IMHO should only be of a temporary nature, and on > reactivation set a new footprint. > > HTH > > Rick H > > milady wrote: > >>I just reread this.. meaning that during a virus scan system restore >>should >>be OFF??? >>ML >>- >> > -- > <Please delete this line and everything below.> > > To unsub or change your email settings: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk > > To access our Archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ > //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ > > > -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/