System restore question

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Nocturnal

If someone downloads and runs a trojan and then uses system restore to back
to a system restore point prior to running the virus, is that computer still
infected?
 
Hi

The system could still be infected - depending on where the virus installed
itself on the hard disk/partition.
 

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