System Restore and Viruses - Spyware

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One of the most important things when using a program like ms anti spy or adaware to clean a system of spyware with WinMe or XP is to turn off the system restore. Otherwise when rebooting the system the malaware will return.

The system restore function is also useful when cleaning off systems that have been completely trashed by spyware by returning the system to a pre infected date. After this is complete use a good program to then completely clean the system, having the system restore function turned off at this point. Then when system is completely clean and purring set a new restore point.

After all spyware is cleaned do an sfc system file checker by going to start - run and typing sfc /scannow

this will replace windows files back to their original form.

Oh and a last minute msconfig doesn't go astray to get tuned performance of startup and memory resources.