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Posted by tech-guy on February 10, 2007, 8:55 pm
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>| Hi all.
>| I'm currently working on cleaning my neighbor's PC. She's running a
>| Windows Me box that she received from her grandmother, and it was
>| loaded with viruses and spyware etc. I've just about got all of them
>| using David Lipman's tool, AdAware, superantispyware, Spybot S&D, and
>| HijackThis. However, I know there's malware (either dormant or
>| active) hiding in the restore folder. To complicate matters, I can't
>| seem to access the restore folder using rstrui.exe to purge restore
>| points. I've attempted to run the minimalist shell progman.exe on a
>| boot to try getting to the system restore counsel, but still can't get
>| the window to pop up. I think the program is somehow corrupt. So, is
>| there a way I can download or somehow fix the system restore counsel
>| or purge from commandline? Thanks in advance for all your help.
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>| Tech-guy
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> You can do this manually.
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> It has been a while so I hope I can remember the instructions. :-)
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> Create a WinME Boot Disk or use any other MS/PC/DR-DOS Boot Disk.
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> Boot from the DOS disk.
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> attrib -r -s -h c:\_RESTORE
> rename c:\_RESTORE c:\RESTORE.old
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> Reboot the PC.
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> In Windows delete the folder; c:\RESTORE.old
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Thanks. I'll try this tomorrow and let you know how it turns out.
Tech-guy
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