Quote......
"restoring to an infected state, for me, serves no purpose"
Unquote....

You STILL don't get it!!! And this is MY *last word* on the subject.

I have no patience with self-styled 'experts' who refuse to try and
understand. So go back to your other groups and continue to disseminate
faulty information.

HF

"JAD" wrote in message
...
thanks but it was not necessary


restoring to an infected state, for me, serves no purpose. I have
never had the displeasure of having a system screwed up because of
virus removal since I was on the 12 step 'Rid myself of norton"
therapy years ago. AFA spyware and such, it rarely infects my machines
and has never been a big problem. when it does, hijackthis is the
ultimate in removal. (and should be used by some one who understands
the difference between 'BACK up' and system restore. ;^)


"Heather" wrote in message
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JAD.......

You are not understanding what Mike is saying to you......and any
others
that follow your line of thinking. I will admit it took me a while
to *get
it*, but perhaps I can put it in simpler English for you. Make that
*Canadian English* (G).

If you disable and clear out the System Restore BEFORE getting rid
of the
offending object, you have also thrown away any chance of restoring
your
computer, should you happen to screw something up!!! You will have
NO
restore points to go back to.

In other words, you CAN restore to a point BEFORE you got infected
and you
will NOT be restoring the virus/trojan/whatever to your computer.

Is this any clearer??

And Mike......I hope I got that across right.....or for that matter,
I hope
I got it right, grin!!

It is a hard concept for people to get their minds around.......all
they are
thinking is *get rid of this blasted malware*!!

Cheers and off for supper......Heather

"JAD" wrote in message
...
"personally-I would" this would mean its my opinion...I
wouldn't
you can



"Mike M" wrote in message
...
But if not yourself a user may well want to restore to an
uninfected
checkpoint created prior to any infection. By flushing the
restore
archive as a first action one removes such action from ones
armoury
of
tools.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



JAD wrote:

either way works.......fix - disable - re-enable -
disable -
fix - re-enable

not want to restore to an infected restore point