question about restoring

poeah · 08-13-2009, 03:26 PM

so i downloaded a zip file and before i even opened it i scanned it with my antivirus, turns out it had the autorun.cxl worm and my antivirus moved it to the quarantined files. i scanned my computer and it still detected it so it quarantined the file again. i decided to restore my computer to a previous point before i downloaded the zip file. i scanned the computer and the virus did not came up on avira. am i safe or do you guys recommend i reinstall windows?

Mike50551 · 08-17-2009, 11:24 PM

You should be safe, anything that was not previously in there is gone, I do recommend that you do some Online scans though, just to be on the safe side, viruses can manipulate your security to think they are not there sometimes.

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http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

http://www.bitdefender.com/scanner/online/free.html

http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner

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I hope this helps! If not post back. If its solved make sure to go to Thread Tools and press Marked as Solved.

08-13-2009, 03:26 PM	#1 (permalink)
poeah Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 3 OS: xp	question about restoring so i downloaded a zip file and before i even opened it i scanned it with my antivirus, turns out it had the autorun.cxl worm and my antivirus moved it to the quarantined files. i scanned my computer and it still detected it so it quarantined the file again. i decided to restore my computer to a previous point before i downloaded the zip file. i scanned the computer and the virus did not came up on avira. am i safe or do you guys recommend i reinstall windows?

08-17-2009, 11:24 PM	#2 (permalink)
Mike50551 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 22 OS: Vista SP1 (32-64-Bit) Windows 7 (32-64 Bit) Windows XP SP1, Windows XP SP2 (32-64)	Re: question about restoring You should be safe, anything that was not previously in there is gone, I do recommend that you do some Online scans though, just to be on the safe side, viruses can manipulate your security to think they are not there sometimes. -------------- http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ http://www.bitdefender.com/scanner/online/free.html http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner ----------------- I hope this helps! If not post back. If its solved make sure to go to Thread Tools and press Marked as Solved. Last edited by Mike50551; 08-17-2009 at 11:27 PM.