Using Windows Restore Points to Remove Malware

We are happy to hear this worked for you.

This will sometimes work to help get you to the point where some of the outlying effects of the malware have been negated but it does not necessarily remove all the malware. You just possible remove the registry related aspects by doing the restore. This however does not necessarily get rid of all the files that the malware may have put on your system. Proper scan really should be performed anyway.

In addition, you could have also reinserted any malware that was ineffect 2 days ago.

While using System Restore can be helpful to get started for some minor malware issues, it will not work for most of the malware we tpycially see these days because most more "effective/smarter" malware breaks the ability to use System Restore and in some cases even delete all your restore points. In addition, there are many many infection occurring now the use the Master Boot Record and doing a System Restore will not repair this either.

So in short, this is sometimes useful but more often then not ( especially with newer malware) it will not be of use.

 

Great but some scans do not always find what we find by running our full procedures. I'm not saying you are infected. I'm just stating that facts. In many posts here scans with AV programs and SUPERAntiSpyware, and Malwarebytes and similar all turn up clean, but we still frequently find malware in our scans with ComboFix and MGtools.

Some malware ( not all ) will delete restore points completely by disabling System Restore. And some malware just makes it impossible for you to even begin to run System Restore.