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[drew365]

I caught a virus last night while umm, doing research. I clicked on a link and immediately a bunch of icons started loading on my desktop and the computer had a mind of it's own. I ran a deep scan virus program and it got rid of about six trojan virus but couldn't delete four more that seem to be messing up Windows Explorer. I'm using another computer to type this now.
My question, if I use windows restore feature to go back to an earlier point will this get rid of the virus? I'm figuring probably not, but it's worth asking the question. Thanks.

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QUOTE (ematulac @ Feb 3 2005, 09:52 PM)

you were doing 'research' on a work computer??  :o use mozilla firefox ... no pop-ups, tabbed browsing, and it's just plain safer than using Internet Exploder.

(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/agree.gif) Bingo! DO NOT USE IE. If you just load Norton AV without all the other crap that slows your computer down like the firewall and spam blocker and crap, just the AV and then run Mozilla with the little box unchecked under security that says "Allow web sites to install software", you will be fine. You dont need to download any spyware blocker software or anything else. No pop ups, no worries. A real computer guy will tell you the same thing..........wait a minute, I am a real computer guy. Oh, and they do have virus's for Macs, just not as many. Windows is a target and AOL users make it even worse.

Think about this, there is no such thing as "free downloadable software" from a company. There is a hitch there somewhere. Programmers, good ones, dont work for free. You pay for it by accepting their software into your computer to do what ever they want it to do. Usually spyware and adware to sell their other products and then they sell your email address you gave them to download their screensaver, popup blocker, spyware catcher or whatever.