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How To Disable System Restore to Remove Viruses
June 8,2008
You may not realize but the System Restore folder in Windows XP is a favorite place for viruses and spyware to hide as it is a Windows protected folder. Thus, this folder must be purged when trying to remove viruses or spyware.
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Step by Step Guide to System Restore and Viruses
June 8,2008
This step-by-step article describes how System Restore in Microsoft Windows XP interacts with your virus scanning software. This article also describes how to remove infected files that you cannot clean from the System Restore data archive. As a result, you can continue to restore your computer to uncompromised restore points. This article also describes how you can revert to a previous infected restore point. This procedure is useful if you must restore an infected file.
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