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Windows XP will restore your virus

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by brockeyt

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I have been evauluating Windows XP for government agency I am currently working for. I downloaded a file to was to supposed to be a boot partition manager to make a dual boot scenario easier with an NT operating system in place. This file turned out to be a back door all zipped up in a file called bootman.zip. The file in side was a file called "crack for windows xp rc1 licencing.exe" I knew something was odd about this and decided to run McAfee v4.5.0.534 with the 4.0.4150 definitions in place. It found it as a back door trojan. I deleted the file and thought my problems were solved. Now, to the good part of this story, Windows XP makes random restore points of your computer in case of a needed roll back of system files, well it actually made a restore point with this virus intact. The only reason I know this "NOW" is that McAfee found it again later of course sending out yet another alert. What is the rest of the worlds thoughts on this subject.

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by network ninja

I dont have XP yet , but however at home i have 3 computers, 2 of them which are my special babies that i gaurd with my life , and the other one, i call it my my lab mouse, cuz i have it loaded with almost all most popular OSes, but anyways its my lab mouse cuz i swear i install windows on there like 5 times a month because im always putting the latest viruses on that computer just to see what happens to the OS every time i put a new virus, it actually makes you learn things that you dont easily learn by just reading about the viruses or trojans, etc, etc. I run all types of test on it, anything! from going to irc infested hacking chat rooms and taking any file they give me to test my virus software, which trend micro has shown me enoughtimes to love it, also it has taught me significanly enough about the registry and etc etc, i highly recommend to anybody to just have an extra pc that contains just a clean install with nothing private, dont network that pc with your main PCs, andespecially no personal emails in your addy book, unless you are like me and i have abunch of yahoo, hotmail emails where i set them up just so i can see the virus email them, or i set up the trojans to email those emails just so i can see how scriptkiddies and hackers do things, anyways hope i gave a tip. I cant wait till i get XP so i can see how the sucker puts the virus back on, after you remove it, GO LINUX

by brockeyt

It is the best $9.95 I spent in a long time. My system is faster, it has been up longer due to reduced amount of reboots bill used to put you through, and also this morning I downloaded the lasted update which is supposed to fix that bug. I like Windows XP from what I can see so far, but I will NOT enable the System Restore feature anymore!

by brianny

1. If a virus is detected,send to quarantine and then deleted from there, would WXP still restore it? if it does, then it's bad feature.
2. At least it should ignore/omit whatever file/s linked to the anti-virus program's deleted or quarantined folders. Or better still prompt the user if they want the files restored.

Otherwise, if it does restore viruses for sure, it's time for a patch. I am still trying to get to grasps with WinXP which so far has been installed to a limited selection of execs in my organization.

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