Trojan Backdoor

[Jackson]

My AVG found Trojan irc/backdoor.sdbot3... in
C:\system volume information/_restore.....

I believe it got rid of the malware, but do I now have to do something
to prevent being reinfected if I should ever restore an earlier date
using SystemRestore?

Any help appreciated.

[Default User]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:29:33 -0500, Jackson <jjacXkdins@Xcox.net> wrote:

>My AVG found Trojan irc/backdoor.sdbot3... in
>C:\system volume information/_restore.....
>
>I believe it got rid of the malware, but do I now have to do something
>to prevent being reinfected if I should ever restore an earlier date
>using SystemRestore?
>
>Any help appreciated.

Turn off system restore, reboot your system, and then turn system restore
back on. This will clear all previous restore points that may be infected.
You can then create a system restore point (after turning restore back on)
to have a fresh one available if you need it.

[Jackson]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:25:25 -0400, Default User
<default@user1.invalid> wrote:

>On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:29:33 -0500, Jackson <jjacXkdins@Xcox.net> wrote:
>
>>My AVG found Trojan irc/backdoor.sdbot3... in
>>C:\system volume information/_restore.....
>>
>>I believe it got rid of the malware, but do I now have to do something
>>to prevent being reinfected if I should ever restore an earlier date
>>using SystemRestore?
>>
>>Any help appreciated.
>
>Turn off system restore, reboot your system, and then turn system restore
>back on. This will clear all previous restore points that may be infected.
>You can then create a system restore point (after turning restore back on)
>to have a fresh one available if you need it.

Thanks, that seemed to work okay. Actually I turned SR off and then
rebooted twice (it seemed like a good idea at the time, I figured one
reboot would get rid of the old bad stuff and the next reboot would
put in a good restore point). So now I have a SR with one good
restore point. :>)