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. :>)