"The virus indications in the Restore folder are of little consequence,
unless you perform a restoral to an infected point. The following verbose
info should cover all your questions.
I believe author credit may go to Mr. Mike Maltby, MS-MVP...
someone correct me if I'm wrong."


Here is the actual source/reference, heirloom ...

"Antivirus Tools Cannot Clean Infected Files in the _Restore Folder"
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;263455

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"heirloom" wrote in message
...
The virus indications in the Restore folder are of little consequence,
unless you perform a restoral to an infected point. The following verbose
info should cover all your questions. I believe author credit may go to
Mr.
Mike Maltby, MS-MVP...
someone correct me if I'm wrong.


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SYMPTOMS

When you run an antivirus program, you may receive a report that
indicates
that one or more files in the
_Restore\Temp or the _Restore\Archive folders contain a virus or are
infected with a virus. Also, your antivirus
program may indicate an inability to remove the virus from the file or
files.


CAUSE

This behavior occurs because the System Restore feature in Windows
Millennium Edition (Me) protects all folders
and files in the _Restore folder on the Windows Me system partition.
This
folder and all of its subfolders are the
data store that the System Restore feature uses to restore your
computer's
operating system to a previous
state from a previous point in time.

SNIP