Using System Restore to Combat a Virus Attack.
I helped restore a buddys virus ridden xp laptop yesterday. We could not open system restore, malwarebytes or any other security application. I burned a shortcut to system restore and burned it to a cd. I was able to launch system restore from there and succesfully restore to right before the infection. Take that fake anti-virus!
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about 1 year ago
Since most malware will allow the system to run Internet Explorer, we have also had some success by changing the name of the file you want to run to iexplore.exe. Sometimes this will work even if the system won’t let you run any other executeables. Would be interesting to know if this would have worked in this case, renaming rstrui.exe to iexplore.exe and attempting to fire it off.