Restore points

[Bobbi]

A recent virus erased all my restore points. The virus has been removed, but
is there a way to protect my restore points in the future?

Bobbi

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Install a good, comprehensive, security program,
such as Windows OneCare, and you'll not have to
worry about those issues. You can try it FREE
for ninety (90) days.
http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-us/default.htm


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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience -
Windows Vista Enthusiast

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A recent virus erased all my restore points. The virus has been removed, but
is there a way to protect my restore points in the future?

Bobbi

 

[Ghostrider]

A recent virus erased all my restore points. The virus has been removed, but
is there a way to protect my restore points in the future?

Bobbi

Not sure whether yes or no. But the better alternative would be to
generate a disk image file using Ghost, TrueImage, etc., after any
significant changes. It would also be safer since dependence on the
hard drive to restore or recover is reduced.

 

[##Alias##]

Install a good, comprehensive, security program,
such as Windows OneCare, and you'll not have to
worry about those issues. You can try it FREE
for ninety (90) days.
http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-us/default.htm

Don't take this advice. Windows NO Care is one of the worst anti virus
programs around and, to top it off, it ain't free.

Check out www.avast.com for a very good free option. If you want to pay,
get Kaspersky or Node32.

Alias

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

A recent virus erased all my restore points. The virus has been removed, but
is there a way to protect my restore points in the future?

Answered in another newsgroup. Please do not send the same message
separately to more than one newsgroup (called multiposting). Doing so
just fragments the thread, so someone who answers in one newsgroup
doesn't get to see answers from others in another newsgroup. And for
those who read all the newsgroups the message is multiposted to, they
see the message multiple times instead of once (they would see it only
once if you correctly crossposted instead). This wastes everyone's
time, and gets you poorer help than you should get.

If you must send the same message to more than one newsgroup, please
do so by crossposting (but only to a *few* related newsgroups).

Please see "Multiposting vs Crossposting" at
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Install a good, comprehensive, security program,
such as Windows OneCare, and you'll not have to
worry about those issues. You can try it FREE
for ninety (90) days.
http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-us/default.htm

Sorry to disagree, Carey, but I do, and strongly.

First, I don't personally think much of Windows OneCare.

Second, and most important, no security program is perfect, or can be
perfect. It's a very bad mistake to put all your trust in any such
piece of software. Regardless of what security software you run, it's
also necessary to use care in everything you do, and that includes
what web sites you go to, what files you download, what E-mail
attachments you open, etc.

 

[BillW50]

In Ken Blake, MVP typed on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:21:24 -0700:

Sorry to disagree, Carey, but I do, and strongly.

First, I don't personally think much of Windows OneCare.

Second, and most important, no security program is perfect, or can be
perfect. It's a very bad mistake to put all your trust in any such
piece of software. Regardless of what security software you run, it's
also necessary to use care in everything you do, and that includes
what web sites you go to, what files you download, what E-mail
attachments you open, etc.

I disagree Ken. There are many wonderful software out there that you can be
as careless as you want too, and never be harmed one bit. Many of these
programs are great for public computers or those that are just too careless
anyway. Some of them are:

Virtual PC
MojoPac
EAZ-FIX

The first two are virtual enviroments. They can't harm the main system at
all. EAZ-FIX is like System Restore, but protects everything. And if Windows
gets totally screwed up and can't even boot in safe mode, EAX-FIX will still
restore everything back to an earlier state.