most of the time simply removing
a virus or Trojan is not
all that will take to bring
the infected computer up to
par.
most if not all virus's infect and
corrupt the system files as well.
so an antiviral will remove the virus
but cannot replace the corrupted operating
system files. the sfc you did was
a reasonable idea.
but what might be better is
to do a "repair installation" with
the windows setup cd.
the repair installation will
of course replace "all" the
system files with genuine files,
however, the repair install will also
destroy all the old restore points as
well, fortunately.
essentially, when you do a
repair installation, the state of your
operating system is re-set/renewed and
the restore points from the former state
of a corrupted o.s. are worthless,
thus they are destroyed by the repair.
as a suggestion, after you renew
your o.s., you may want to use
the following afterwards:
http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-us/default.htm
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"Robert Bruce" <robertbruce18 RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> After a protracted recovery procedure from a dozen Trojans that
> disabled
> regedit and system restore on an XP box, I now seem to have no
> viruses,
> regedit works again but no system restore; even in Safe Mode. The SR
> tab is
> now missing from the properties on My Computer. If I attempt to start
> SR
> from its shortcut under system tools I recieve an error message to
> restart
> the computer, to no avail. This box now has up to date antivirus and
> several antispyware products.
>
> I tried: sfc/scannow
> %systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe
> chkdsk /r
>
> but would like to hear of another suggestion from the group.
>
> Does XP have: scanreg /fix like in WinMe to repair a registry that has
> probably been trashed by the viruses?
>
>
> TIA
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