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Kelly
February 19th 04, 06:41 AM
Hi Elsie,

Disable System Restore then run the cleaner again (from Symantec, etc) in
safe mode. Norton only removes the files not the registry keys.

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Kelly

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"elsie" > wrote in message
...
> Hi, my old hard disk has a virus - joke.hikaru in the _restore folder. It
was running on win ME initially. Recently, i bought a new hard disk and
install XP in it and set the old hard disk to boot as slave. So now, my
norton antivirus detected this joke.hikaru, but can deleted it. How come? I
have already disable system restore on all hard disks.
>
> Elsie

mrtee
February 20th 04, 01:23 AM
Elsie, that is because the _restore folder was created by Windows Me, =
not XP. Try to delete the folder through Explorer.

Turning off System Restore in XP deletes the information in the "System =
Volume Information" folders only.=20

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Just my 2=A2 worth
Jeff
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"Kelly" > wrote in message =
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| Hi Elsie,
|=20
| Disable System Restore then run the cleaner again (from Symantec, etc) =
in
| safe mode. Norton only removes the files not the registry keys.
|=20
| --=20
| All the Best,
| Kelly
|=20
| MS-MVP Win98/XP
| [AE-Windows=AE XP]
|=20
| Troubleshooting Windows XP
| http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com
|=20
| Utilities for Windows XP
| http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_u.htm#xp_util
|=20
|=20
| "elsie" > wrote in message
| ...
| > Hi, my old hard disk has a virus - joke.hikaru in the _restore =
folder. It
| was running on win ME initially. Recently, i bought a new hard disk =
and
| install XP in it and set the old hard disk to boot as slave. So now, =
my
| norton antivirus detected this joke.hikaru, but can deleted it. How =
come? I
| have already disable system restore on all hard disks.
| >
| > Elsie
|=20
|

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