Comments on: Antivirus XP 2008

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:35:34 +0000

I too was infected by this abomination. I think it was late at night when I got this popup advising me of a virus attack did I want to do something to remove it. I said yes, and all hell broke loose. I couldn’t do anything to remove it, I lost my home page, my browser wouldn’t go to the sites I wanted and all my remove features in XP wouldnt work. It even disabled my control panel so I COULDN’T access any of its features. Boy did I want to do a System restore, but that function was gone too. At the insistance if my Son the IT specialest I saved all the files I could to another drive, and wound up reformatting the hard drive and re installing XP and all the programs and updates necessary to bring it back to normal. Although it was time consuming, it is the best way to insure total removal. I then ( again at his suggestion) downloaded a trial version of Eset antivirus. It seems to be working fine now. Just remember to never ok any request to add or check for malware if you are not 100% sure it is something you have or know where it came from!

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By: Graham

Graham — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:34:03 +0000

Hold up Jayme, I just found a really useful tool to help you if your system restore shortcut in the System Tools is not working. It’s a free progam called AccRestore. You can download it http://www.winxptutor.com/download/accrestore.zip

Run it and it will restore the System Restore shotcut in System Tools if its missing.

By: Graham

Graham — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:54:27 +0000

Thats good jamie, that means system restore is still on your computer. When you say you don’t have system restore, do you mean that there is no link to system restore on your computer or the link doesn’t work? The way to system restore is Start > Programs > Assessories > System Tools > System Restore.

If there is no link to System Restore, Try the following.

Open this folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\System
Tools

Create a new shortcut with this in the filename/target line:

%SystemRoot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe

Name that shortcut System Restore.

You should now have a working link.

By: jayme

jayme — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:43:39 +0000

yes, there is

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:49:10 +0000

jaymet, right click on My Computer and select properties, Is there a “System Restore” tab available? If I know that I can tell you the next step to take.

By: jaymet

jaymet — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:51:42 +0000

graham, i got rid of it somehow lol, i did remove the folder itself from start menu, and that did help alot, i still do not have system restore, but everything else is back to normal, i installed and ran malware bytes and it did help too…any suggestions on gettin system restore?i tried the others advice, but did not help

By: Graham

Graham — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:49:59 +0000

Hi Jamie, Do you have a paid antivirus scanner like SpyDoctor? If not, I recommend you get one and run that on your computer as with your computer knowledge, you could end up causing more problems on your computer if you try to remove Antivirus XP manually.

By: jayme

jayme — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:30:54 +0000

i got rid of it all by goin to the programs in the start menu and just removing the folder there, and in temp internet files i deleted all those and used malwarebytes for scanning, i have the wallpaper tab, but not the ability to do restore, i used the set of instructions from rudi geldenhuy, but it did not even show anything when i typed what i was to type, suggestions?im kinda illiterate when it comes to technical stuff with computers lol

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:59:50 +0000

Q, have you done a virus scan in safe mode and removed the files? What happens when you boot normally into windows? Does it show your Desktop and crash or does it crash while showing the Windows logo? If I know that, I can narrow down your problem.