 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
Windows Forum / Windows XP / Performance and Maintainance / February 2006After deleting worm in safe mode - PC config is a mess! - help ple
What a nightmare. Got a worm, followed Symantec instructions: stopped system restore, booted in safe mode and got rid of the worm. Re-booted in normal mode: disaster! Everything is there but it looks like my "settings" have changed. The pc doesn't load the start up programs - no profile on email - no way of retrieving the original configuration. I re-booted both in normal and selective mode with no success. Out of desperation I wanted to do a system restore (which I re-activated) to find out that I have only ONE restore point created a couple of minutes before when I logged on after the safe mode. This issue affects only my identity, other identities are perfectly fine. Sorry for the long message. Is there anyone who can provide some help. Thanks! Hi, This is exactly why System Restore should NOT be disabled before virus and malware infection is removed. Norton has been preaching the BS for quite some time, and it is wrong. Now you have no way to reverse your actions. Infections that MAY have been in a restore point are dormant, until the system is restored. The time to purge restore points in AFTER all cleaning has been performed. NOT before. I suspect this is your only alternative. How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install by Michael Stevens MS-MVP: http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm  SignatureRegards, Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User http://bertk.mvps.org > What a nightmare. > Got a worm, followed Symantec instructions: stopped system restore, [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Thanks! Thank you Bert for the quick reply. I must admit that after looking at the procedure for a Windows XP repair I am getting a bit nervous.... What I am about to say is perhaps a bit naive and amaturish so please don't flame me. What if I create a new admin identity and config it so to mirror my old one and then delete the "corrupted" one. Do you think this will work? Stefano > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > > > Thanks! Hi, Sure can. Here are three article to assist you. How To Create and Configure User Accounts in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;279783 How to copy data from a corrupted user profile to a new profile http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811151 How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421 SignatureRegards, Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User http://bertk.mvps.org > Thank you Bert for the quick reply. I must admit that after looking > at the procedure for a Windows XP repair I am getting a bit [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] >>> >>> Thanks! |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2008 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.