Emergency: .DLL Spyware Assault

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by jumpy

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only one issue with a system restore I encountered a while back: some viruses store themselves in the system restore area which is off limits to your virus scanner. So whilst you get it off your hd with conventional means, as soon as you roll back to a previous restore point guess who's back?

It was desperately annoying until I discovered that this was what was happening. Since then I have disabled system restore on both of my active hard drives.

If you're looking for a decent AV software, have a go with NOD32. They do a months free trial I believe and after that it's about 25 quid for a years subscription. Well worth it in my opinion.

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Pleased your sorted SH

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by jumpy

^^
only one issue with a system restore I encountered a while back: some viruses store themselves in the system restore area which is off limits to your virus scanner. So whilst you get it off your hd with conventional means, as soon as you roll back to a previous restore point guess who's back?

It was desperately annoying until I discovered that this was what was happening. Since then I have disabled system restore on both of my active hard drives.

If you're looking for a decent AV software, have a go with NOD32. They do a months free trial I believe and after that it's about 25 quid for a years subscription. Well worth it in my opinion.

Yes, but you can go into your Control Panel/System/System Restore and check "Turn off System Restore for all drives"; then reboot and turn it back on. That will clear out all old restore points.

[Stealth Hunter]

Well, I've had not one problem since the event, one week ago today. I'm 99% sure now that it's entirely gone. I'll just need to remember to enable my firewall settings at a bit of a higher level next time (and possibly turn on real-time protection on AVG, too).