Advice on restoring to a backup
30 July 2005, 11:48 PM
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Advice on restoring to a backup
My PC has been acting up since some viruses got loose on it. At the time of the virus attack, my PC was fully up-to-date, with XP Pro, SP2, all the latest XP patches, latest version of Zonealarm, virus defs, etc., etc.
I followed removal advice for the virus and apparently my PC was then clean (according to a HijackThis log).
However, it now shuts down on its own and closes programs intermittently. These problems didn't happen before. They may not be related to the viruses, but I'd rather not take a chance.
I want to restore to a backup made using the XP Backup utility, but I need advice on whether or not it will actually restore my PC to the exact state it was in, at the time the backup was made, i.e. the system, as opposed to just data and applications.
Can anyone advise about this?
Thanks.
I followed removal advice for the virus and apparently my PC was then clean (according to a HijackThis log).
However, it now shuts down on its own and closes programs intermittently. These problems didn't happen before. They may not be related to the viruses, but I'd rather not take a chance.
I want to restore to a backup made using the XP Backup utility, but I need advice on whether or not it will actually restore my PC to the exact state it was in, at the time the backup was made, i.e. the system, as opposed to just data and applications.
Can anyone advise about this?
Thanks.
31 July 2005, 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by shawa
My PC has been acting up since some viruses got loose on it. At the time of the virus attack, my PC was fully up-to-date, with XP Pro, SP2, all the latest XP patches, latest version of Zonealarm, virus defs, etc., etc.
I followed removal advice for the virus and apparently my PC was then clean (according to a HijackThis log).
However, it now shuts down on its own and closes programs intermittently. These problems didn't happen before. They may not be related to the viruses, but I'd rather not take a chance.
I want to restore to a backup made using the XP Backup utility, but I need advice on whether or not it will actually restore my PC to the exact state it was in, at the time the backup was made, i.e. the system, as opposed to just data and applications.
Can anyone advise about this?
Thanks.
I followed removal advice for the virus and apparently my PC was then clean (according to a HijackThis log).
However, it now shuts down on its own and closes programs intermittently. These problems didn't happen before. They may not be related to the viruses, but I'd rather not take a chance.
I want to restore to a backup made using the XP Backup utility, but I need advice on whether or not it will actually restore my PC to the exact state it was in, at the time the backup was made, i.e. the system, as opposed to just data and applications.
Can anyone advise about this?
Thanks.
Failing that have you tried restoring from an XP save point?
01 August 2005, 04:47 PM
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Originally Posted by shawa
My PC has been acting up since some viruses got loose on it. At the time of the virus attack, my PC was fully up-to-date, with XP Pro, SP2, all the latest XP patches, latest version of Zonealarm, virus defs, etc., etc.
I followed removal advice for the virus and apparently my PC was then clean (according to a HijackThis log).
However, it now shuts down on its own and closes programs intermittently. These problems didn't happen before. They may not be related to the viruses, but I'd rather not take a chance.
I want to restore to a backup made using the XP Backup utility, but I need advice on whether or not it will actually restore my PC to the exact state it was in, at the time the backup was made, i.e. the system, as opposed to just data and applications.
Can anyone advise about this?
Thanks.
I followed removal advice for the virus and apparently my PC was then clean (according to a HijackThis log).
However, it now shuts down on its own and closes programs intermittently. These problems didn't happen before. They may not be related to the viruses, but I'd rather not take a chance.
I want to restore to a backup made using the XP Backup utility, but I need advice on whether or not it will actually restore my PC to the exact state it was in, at the time the backup was made, i.e. the system, as opposed to just data and applications.
Can anyone advise about this?
Thanks.
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