A Virus that Just Won’t Die

Many of us have had the experience of dealing with a particularly resilient computer virus. It’s bad enough that you got a pesky virus in the first place but when you have one that just won’t die it as if you are cursed. Unfortunately it is not uncommon to be plagued with a virus that comes back more than once, or even twice. It will continue to come back until you take steps to remove it once and for all. Sometimes your virus software just can’t get to the root of the virus.
When a virus infection returns before you throw in the towel or spend hundreds of dollars getting your computer cleaned and repaired you may want to take a few basic steps to see if you can kill the little bugger yourself first. After all; what have you got to lose?

Usually what happens is that your virus software will detect a virus and you take the steps to remove this. If you are using Windows operating system, it is naturally programmed to make a copy of your system in the event you have a problem and Windows does everything in its power to protect the restore points. A restore point is a place in the history of your computer that Windows can go back to in the event you get a virus. Since Windows can’t scan or alter the restore point in any way it is possible that even when you scan and remove the virus it was on your system at the point that Windows created a restore point. In this event it is possible that your system will get re-infected. This is unfortunate but true.

The main way to stop a virus from continuing to re-infect your system is to get rid of potentially infected restore points and then create new clean restore points. Take the following steps to do this:

• Locate your System Restore in your Control Panel. (The Windows operating system houses the system restore feature in the control panel under System Properties. It may differ slightly depending on your version of Windows).
• Delete the Restore Points.
• Turn the System Restore back on.
• Create a Restore Point, this can be any random date and time.
• Once you have created a random Restore Point open your virus software and scan your system for spyware or viruses.
• Clean the system if necessary.
• Delete the Restore Points again
• Then turn the System Restore back on.
• Create another random Restore Point.

This is one way to ensure that your restore point is clean and there is nothing preventing your system from being re-infested with a virus. It is always beneficial to do a deep scan of your system regularly or put the scan on a schedule as a protective measure against these pesky viruses. Now you know that if it reoccurs you need to take one more step to get rid of it.