Addition to System Restore step?

[andrenal]

Just wondering if you knew about this and if it should be added to the System Restore step in "Read This First":

The Precacher helps quickly load programs in XP, so a virus can hide in precache files.

To clear the Precache, open Windows Explorer and navigate to C:\Windows\Prefetch. Click Edit | Select All and then press [Delete]

[chaslang]

Originally Posted by D3m3nt3d

Thanks for the advice. During our fixes we have them empty everything inside their C:\Windows\Prefetch folders.

Which Adrenal should already know since it was given in the below link in message # 7:

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=83764

And guess who started that thread!

[andrenal]

Okay wait a minute. I follow the "Read & Run Me First" pretty closely, did I miss in there where it tells about the prefetch folder? If I did I guess it is buried somewhere and should be more evident. And when exactly should it be done?

[chaslang]

Originally Posted by andrenal

Okay wait a minute. I follow the "Read & Run Me First" pretty closely, did I miss in there where it tells about the prefetch folder? If I did I guess it is buried somewhere and should be more evident. And when exactly should it be done?

It is not in the READ ME. It is in the cleaning steps that we give. That is what I meant when I reference mg # 7 in that previous thread of yours.

Anytime we fix problems, there is normal some process and files to delete. After we delete the files, we empty prefetch and then also run Ccleaner which will remove everything you just deleted from the Recycle Bin.

[andrenal]

So a person would actually have to write in to the forum for help before you would direct them to clean the prefetch folder? It is not specifically written in your READ ME files?

[chaslang]

That's correct. First we would have to see that malware files that need to be deleted were actually running on the system. Otherwise cleaning the prefetch is not really necessary nor do you want to do that if not necessary because it will slow the operation of the PC down for a while until the prefetch folder gets repopulated again with applications that are frequently used.