Restore Points overwriting themselves.

[Cheryl]

Hi -

I'd hoped to be able to restore a computer to a point before the system
became corrupted. Trouble is that all prior restore points but one are gone;
the one remaining is a system checkpoint from the current day. I say from
the current day because it keeps overwriting itself! I was able to manually
create a restore point that seems to have held for the moment, at least; but
the checkpoints keep overwriting themselves.

I've checked, and system restore is still turned on, and the disk usage for
restore points is set to 12% (with more than 63Gb free), so I'm at a loss!
Issues that I believe to be registry corruption are a wide variety of error
messages, all referrencing different keys/strings. These all seem to occur
while using Internet Explorer. Also, antivirus keeps prompting a reboot to
remove leftover bits of the same virus, even after reboot...

I realize that I'm going to have to run system recovery, since system
restore is out of the question; but I'm curious as to where the restore
points are stored, as well as the switch that is telling it to overwrite
itself (as opposed to appending?) I'd just like to be able to verify that
everything is as it should be after I run the recovery process...

Thanks in advance!

 

[db]

perhaps, your anti virus
are deleting them.

perhaps, your master
file table needs to be
reconciled to the file
system.

so you might want to
run a check disk.
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perhaps, you might
try updating the restore
calender:

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_sysrestore_blank.htm

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you should disable or uninstall
your anti virus program(s)
before attempting restore,
repair or recovery.

and you can also try this
tool and select full scan:

http://onecare.live.com/site/en-US/article/registry_cleaner_why.htm

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[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Start here: http://bertk.mvps.org/html/diskspace.html

Also see http://bertk.mvps.org/html/drivedisable.html

 

[Gerry]

Cheryl

http://bertk.mvps.org/html/missingrps.html

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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[db]

what sort of malware
targets the system restore
points exclusively?

wouldn't malware have
better system files
to act upon?

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[Gerry]

BeeCeeBee

Some consider Norton to be malware! Otherwise it's not normally malware that
cause problems with System Restore!


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FCA
Stourport, England
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[Jose]

what sort of malware
targets the system restore
points exclusively?

wouldn't malware have
better system files
to act upon?

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DatabaseBen, Retired Professional
 - Systems Analyst
 - Database Developer
 - Accountancy
 - Veteran of the Armed Forces
- @hotmail.com
"share the nirvana" - dbZen

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The loss of restore points are classic symptoms of some malware.
Obviously something has caused you to want to restore to a previous
point. It is far better to look to the cause rather than just the
symptom. Disinfecting your system is a lot less painless than a full
recovery. come visit us below if you need a good combination for
removing malware.

I saw this week a system that could suddenly not access User Accounts
or System Restore from the menus. THe guy wanted to go back to a
restore point but could not with no interface. I don't know if the
Restore Points were actually gone, but they were inaccessible.

That is cute (not necessarily smart or malicious) malware. It is
merely an annoying inconvenience. Install yourself, then fix it so
people can't go back - what a good idea.

This was fixed with Malwarebytes free download. I don't know if it
said what was found exactly, but the problem was resolved after a
scan, cleanup, reboot.

 

[db]

firstly, if you read the
privacy notice by malware
bytes you might be inclined
not to use it since it is
spyware.

finding and deleting any
contamination only to make
room for itself is the
american way of doing
business.

secondly, malware has
much to gain / benefit from
restore points.

without restore points
they cannot bury themselves
into the computer users
system.

so I doubt seriously that
malware will target the
system restore points.

however, it is not to say
that anti virus programs wont
find contaminated restore
points and then delete them.

thirdly, just because a system
is unstable, it does not mean
it is due to infection.

unknowledgeable computer
users are their own infections
and cause the problems.
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db·´¯`·...¸><)))º>
DatabaseBen, Retired Professional
- Systems Analyst
- Database Developer
- Accountancy
- Veteran of the Armed Forces
- @hotmail.com
"share the nirvana" - dbZen

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what sort of malware
targets the system restore
points exclusively?

wouldn't malware have
better system files
to act upon?

--

db·´¯`·...¸><)))º>
DatabaseBen, Retired Professional
- Systems Analyst
- Database Developer
- Accountancy
- Veteran of the Armed Forces
- @hotmail.com
"share the nirvana" - dbZen

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The loss of restore points are classic symptoms of some malware.
Obviously something has caused you to want to restore to a previous
point. It is far better to look to the cause rather than just the
symptom. Disinfecting your system is a lot less painless than a full
recovery. come visit us below if you need a good combination for
removing malware.

I saw this week a system that could suddenly not access User Accounts
or System Restore from the menus. THe guy wanted to go back to a
restore point but could not with no interface. I don't know if the
Restore Points were actually gone, but they were inaccessible.

That is cute (not necessarily smart or malicious) malware. It is
merely an annoying inconvenience. Install yourself, then fix it so
people can't go back - what a good idea.

This was fixed with Malwarebytes free download. I don't know if it
said what was found exactly, but the problem was resolved after a
scan, cleanup, reboot.