Forcing system restore

Thanks everyone. I contacted HP and found out there is a Roxio Back on Track
application on the netbook. Was able to perform a system restore back to
September '09. I have a full virus scan scheduled for today, but I believe I
will take the necessary steps to create a system recovery back to
manufacturer's settings - just to be safe.

Thanks soooooo much for all of your responses.

"Daave" wrote:

Assuming the installation media for all the programs is readily
available, a Clean Install (or its equivalent) may be the wisest course
of action.

visuals4u wrote:
Don't need to copy the data. It's my son's computer and nothing
important is on therre. He saves to a flash drive.

The virus is from platinum-antivir.net

"Daave" wrote:

visuals4u wrote:
A virus is preventing me from restoring an HP mini 110. Can't get to
system restore and enter a previous date in time. Can't restore at
startup because F8 is not working. Can't get to Run to enter
msconfig and select safeboot. Can anyone recommend another way to
force a restoration?

You are describing Windows System Restore. Even if you could do it,
it would be a bad idea (because the virus would still be there). If
you are unable to remove the virus, you need to copy your data and
start fresh.

Netbooks aren't the easiest to work with because they don't even have
internal optical drives. Do you have access to an external optical
drive? If so, you can boot off a rescue disk which would at the least
allow you to copy your data if that needs to be done. Also there are
bootable antivirus CDs that can help you in this situation. Post back
and we can post links for you.

Are you able to identify the virus? If so, that information should
allow us to give you more pertinent solutions.

P.S.: Another option is to physically remove your hard drive and
place it in an enclosure and connect it to a working PC and use
*that* PC to remove the virus.


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Thanks everyone. I contacted HP and found out there is a Roxio Back on Track
application on the netbook. Was able to perform a system restore back to
September '09. I have a full virus scan scheduled for today, but I believe I
will take the necessary steps to create a system recovery back to
manufacturer's settings - just to be safe.

Thanks soooooo much for all of your responses.

"Daave" wrote:

Assuming the installation media for all the programs is readily
available, a Clean Install (or its equivalent) may be the wisest course
of action.

visuals4u wrote:
Don't need to copy the data. It's my son's computer and nothing
important is on therre. He saves to a flash drive.

The virus is from platinum-antivir.net

"Daave" wrote:

visuals4u wrote:
A virus is preventing me from restoring an HP mini 110. Can't get to
system restore and enter a previous date in time. Can't restore at
startup because F8 is not working. Can't get to Run to enter
msconfig and select safeboot. Can anyone recommend another way to
force a restoration?

You are describing Windows System Restore. Even if you could do it,
it would be a bad idea (because the virus would still be there). If
you are unable to remove the virus, you need to copy your data and
start fresh.

Netbooks aren't the easiest to work with because they don't even have
internal optical drives. Do you have access to an external optical
drive? If so, you can boot off a rescue disk which would at the least
allow you to copy your data if that needs to be done. Also there are
bootable antivirus CDs that can help you in this situation. Post back
and we can post links for you.

Are you able to identify the virus? If so, that information should
allow us to give you more pertinent solutions.

P.S.: Another option is to physically remove your hard drive and
place it in an enclosure and connect it to a working PC and use
*that* PC to remove the virus.


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