system restore ?

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On april 7th a nephew went on my computer with tragic results. Defender found
5 trojans, Avg found 7 objects, Ad- Aware found 68 critical objects, dozens
and dozens of scans later, i think i have my computer back. Then i discovered
my system restore had been turned off. My question is there a way to turn
your computer back to april 6th even though all your previous snapshots have
been wiped out, priour to april 7th. Need to read all help, and thank you .
RON
 
Hello Ron,

Only with a back up make around that date.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/faqsrwxp.mspx

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial56.html

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/xpsysrst.mspx?pf=true

http://windows.about.com/od/performancetopics/l/aa020127a.htm

http://dozleng.com/internetsecurity/?p=72

For the benefit of the community reading this post, please rate the pºsts.

I hope this post is helpful.

Let us know how it works ºut.

Еиçеl
 
Ron H said:
On april 7th a nephew went on my computer with tragic results. Defender
found
5 trojans, Avg found 7 objects, Ad- Aware found 68 critical objects,
dozens
and dozens of scans later, i think i have my computer back. Then i
discovered
my system restore had been turned off. My question is there a way to turn
your computer back to april 6th even though all your previous snapshots
have
been wiped out, priour to april 7th. Need to read all help, and thank you
.
RON
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I know it is too late now for this to be of any current use to you but I put
it forward for future use. It makes your system and data nephew proof. I use
an imaging system that creates daily backups to an external USB hard drive.
Provided you keep this drive out of reach of said nephew you could in future
roll your computer back to exactly where it was before his last visit. That
is of course assuming you have not already banned any future visits and have
struck him from your Will !!

Richard
 
I was just about to write pretty much exactly what Richard advised below,
before he beat me to it. After too many years of too many minor and major
mishaps, and discovering how useless Microsoft's System Restore is in
practice, a year ago I decided to invest in two 300gb external HDs (one
hidden away under my desk for extra security) to which I mirror both my
drives (OS and data) automatically every night. In those 12 months, my data
has been saved twice from disaster -- once just as Ron describes, from use of
my computer by my daughter; and another time, when said computer was actually
stolen.
On each occasion, it was a simple matter of restoring the drive images, and
everything was up and running again -- perfectly -- in less than an hour.
I did quite a bit of research for the software -- and decided on Acronis
True Image, which is really neat implementation, and allows you to restore
individual files as well as entire images. There are several other imaging
apps -- tho I tried Symantec's Ghost & didn't like it much.
Yep, it's too late now. But for the future, imaging is definitely the way
to go.
 
Thanks for your answers, Engel i'm still reading, thank you, Hawkins, at the
rate my nephew is going, he won't be around long enough to get anything from
my will. Thanks for the laugh. Dom thanks, now there is more to think about.
 
One other thought: Set up an additional user on your machine, for visitors
use. Make that user a limited user. This will also limit the damage, in
some cases.

There's an annoyance factor--you'll need a password on your own account and
will need to use that at startup. You can set the machine to autologon, but
you'd need to remember to turn that off when visitors are around--no perfect
choices, I'm afraid.

--
 
Thanks for this info - one question, do you know if Acronis True Image can be
used on more than one pc? I have a home network with two pc's and would
like to backup both of them - but $50.00(for one copy) compared
with$100.00(for two copies) may influence my decision. Appreciate any input
you have about this. I will check out their website. Thanks again.
 
I fancy you must yourself have disabled System Restore.
A fatal recommendation before scanning resulting in COMPLETE LOSS of
all your restore points. You were in fact lucky to clear your system without
having to resort to a reinstall or whatever.
Incidentally there exists an option under DiscScan removing all restore
points except the most recent one.
However in your case with knowledge of the exact date of infection you
should have adopted the following procedure.
On boot tap F8 and enter safe mode option;choosing either safe mode or safe
mode with limited net facility; DO NOT CHOOSE final entry into safe mode but
DO CHOOSE the alternative option offered of direct entry into System Restore
and
restore to the day before or earlier if necessary to your Nephew's visit.
This simple use of System Restore in "Safe Mode" will obviate any use of
AntiVirus/AntiMalWare Software and avoid the possibility of still
undiscovered nasties surviving from your visitor.
I would apologise for any misleading expressions as I am translating from
French
local system and in closing would add that there is an apparent reluctance
amongst non french users to use the undoubted advantages of the System Restore
Function in a Safe Mode Environment,
Salut de Poitou-Charente.
 
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