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Clean out system restore.
Windows ME and XP comes with a useful little feature called SYSTEM RESTORE. It makes a copy of certain areas of your PC at the time each restore point is created, by default this will be every 24 hours. This can be helpful when troubleshooting to return your computer to a point before any problems occurred, but in making a copy of what is in your computer, it will also copy and store any malware that was in there at the time the restore point was made.
Malware kept is system restore is not active and poses no threat, unless you restore your PC to an earlier point that contains malware, in which case you will be re-infected.
System restore does not allow anything it stores to be changed, If your security software detects an infection in any of the following, It is seeing the copy held within System restore, and will not be able to remove it. -
system volume information\_restore
_Restore\Temp
_Restore\Archive
To resolve this issue, you can either
Ignore the warnings, or tell your security scanner to ignore it. The malware can do no harm provided you do not use that restore point, it will eventually be overwritten.
Or you can remove all your restore points, and of course the copy of the malware.
For Windows XP
Click Start and Right click My computer, select Properties to open the System properties box.
Click the System restore tab.
put a check mark in the box to Turn off System restore
Click Apply then OK and restart your PC. Re-scan your computer to make sure the system is clean.
To create a new restore point, click Start > All programs > Accessories > system tools > system restore
Click Create a new restore point and Next, follow the onscreen instructions.
For Windows ME.
Click Start > Settings > control panel. Double click on the System icon to open the system properties box. If there is no System icon, click View all control panel options
On the Performance tab, click the File system button.
Click the Troubleshooting tab and check mark Disable system restore.
Click OK and restart the PC
Click Apply then OK
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