Complete Comuter restore

> "Gene Fitz" wrote
>

> > Complete computer restore rocks my socks off.
> > Earlier, as an "I'll try this feature out!" idea, I did a complete C:
> > backup. Later I loaded anti-virus and such. Well, shortly after, on
> > MySpace,
> > I came to a site that I wasn't sure about the software it told me to load.
> > It
> > ended up having a grabber in the program, as well as adware. (you know,
> > teach
> > you a leson so you will buy their anti-virus"
> > Well, I figured out it was supposed to just infect you enough to where you
> > know you have a virus and have to buy their product. Well, I can say that
> > my
> > anti-virus cought it a little late. OOPS! But defender cought it. Sadly,
> > defender stopped it from loading at start-up, which locked up explorer and
> > it
> > stayed in that cycle, loading, faulting, and shutting down Windows
> > explorer.
> > I can't say anything bad about it because defender was doing exactly what
> > it
> > was supposed to do. So, I started to re-load windows then though "Hmmm,
> > Repair.."
> > I did a complete computer restore from my earlier back up. Thank God! it
> > saved me a lot of time re-loading windows and all the programs I had
> > loaded
> > before the back-up. Now all I have to do is re-load anti-virus. But this
> > time, I think I will choose another brand.
> > The moral of this story is:
> > Back that thang up!
> > And that Complete Computer Restore rocks!

>
> What AV did you have loaded? It's not necessarily the fault of the AV
> program - if this was non viral malware which sounds like it is.
>
> On what media was the original backup done?
>
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> Complete computer restore rocks my socks off.
> Earlier, as an "I'll try this feature out!" idea, I did a complete C:
> backup. Later I loaded anti-virus and such. Well, shortly after, on
> MySpace,
> I came to a site that I wasn't sure about the software it told me to load.
> It
> ended up having a grabber in the program, as well as adware. (you know,
> teach
> you a leson so you will buy their anti-virus"
> Well, I figured out it was supposed to just infect you enough to where you
> know you have a virus and have to buy their product. Well, I can say that
> my
> anti-virus cought it a little late. OOPS! But defender cought it. Sadly,
> defender stopped it from loading at start-up, which locked up explorer and
> it
> stayed in that cycle, loading, faulting, and shutting down Windows
> explorer.
> I can't say anything bad about it because defender was doing exactly what
> it
> was supposed to do. So, I started to re-load windows then though "Hmmm,
> Repair.."
> I did a complete computer restore from my earlier back up. Thank God! it
> saved me a lot of time re-loading windows and all the programs I had
> loaded
> before the back-up. Now all I have to do is re-load anti-virus. But this
> time, I think I will choose another brand.
> The moral of this story is:
> Back that thang up!
> And that Complete Computer Restore rocks!

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> "Gene Fitz" <GeneFitz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>> Complete computer restore rocks my socks off.
>> Earlier, as an "I'll try this feature out!" idea, I did a complete C:
>> backup. Later I loaded anti-virus and such. Well, shortly after, on
>> MySpace,
>> I came to a site that I wasn't sure about the software it told me to
>> load. It
>> ended up having a grabber in the program, as well as adware. (you know,
>> teach
>> you a leson so you will buy their anti-virus"
>> Well, I figured out it was supposed to just infect you enough to where
>> you
>> know you have a virus and have to buy their product. Well, I can say that
>> my
>> anti-virus cought it a little late. OOPS! But defender cought it. Sadly,
>> defender stopped it from loading at start-up, which locked up explorer
>> and it
>> stayed in that cycle, loading, faulting, and shutting down Windows
>> explorer.
>> I can't say anything bad about it because defender was doing exactly what
>> it
>> was supposed to do. So, I started to re-load windows then though "Hmmm,
>> Repair.."
>> I did a complete computer restore from my earlier back up. Thank God! it
>> saved me a lot of time re-loading windows and all the programs I had
>> loaded
>> before the back-up. Now all I have to do is re-load anti-virus. But this
>> time, I think I will choose another brand.
>> The moral of this story is:
>> Back that thang up!
>> And that Complete Computer Restore rocks!

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