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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: fourth1 on December 04, 2007, 11:38:21 AM

Title: Does using System Recovery eliminate a virus stored in the virus chest
Post by: fourth1 on December 04, 2007, 11:38:21 AM

I had two viruses stored in the virus chest. Soon after I used System Recovery to restore my computer to it's original state.
Could the two viruses still exist on my computer.

Title: Re: Does using System Recovery eliminate a virus stored in the virus chest
Post by: DavidR on December 04, 2007, 03:07:44 PM

The two viruses with the exception of the ones you sent to the chest don't exist on your system.

System Restore isn't a back-up tool and is fallible and may not give the results you want. It would have zero effect on the files stored in it as it is a protected area and system restore wouldn't cover that anyway.

If any of your restore points were infected then if you use system restore and go to a point that includes an infected restore point then you could be re-infecting your system. Hopefully avast would have detected those also and you elected to move them to the chest, etc.

Why did you need to use system restore ?

So I would suggest that you rescan your system with avast, schedule a boot-time scan would be quickest and quite effective if system restore placed items back in the system folders. Or an on-demand thorough scan longest.