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Old June 19th 13, 12:55 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
David H. Lipman
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Default O.T. - computer virus?

From:

I would like to ask one last question, if I may.
In the link below given by Paul which I've
excerpted the person had a similar problem as
mine but his System Restore no longer functioned.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/889846

(This morning when I ran a daily anti-virus scan,
it reported multiple protected files in the latest
system restore point from the Flash player installer
file. So I tried to restore from Friday, the previous
week, but the restore operation failed. Tried two
days from last month and the month before that;
none would restore. Finally, I shutdown system
restore and rebooted the PC to clear all the restore
file data. Then restarted system restore and ran
anti-virus and all is well again).

How can I tell if my System Restore hasn't been affected?

Robert


Affected ?

If you have a file that is in part or as a whole is a self extracting archive file (aka;
SFX) and the files embedded are encrypted (aka; password protected) then an anti virus
application can not scan the files with the SFX because it can't extract the files and
then scan them because it does'nt have the password.

Unless the file is excluded or whitelisted an anti virus scanner will flag the file
because it is password protected and that does not indicate malware in of itself. There
are malicious actors who use SFX and password protection to block AV scanners from
scanning their malware so flagging such a password protected file is justified.

However, I would NOT connect the Adobe post from 2011 with your problem and I don't get
"How can I tell if my System Restore hasn't been affected?"


--
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp


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