Close encounters of the worst kind...

Alright guys I just had my first Close encounter of the worst kind with an online computer virus called something like...Java run verify or something like that. My AVG program flagged me that it had detected a virus in a download, and my first response was to delete the file before I thought that the file might be one of my operating files that I had just deleted, so, when I was immediately flagged again, I sent the file to the AVG virus Vault. I had to send three more before I was able to disconnect from the website and stop the downloads.

I then ran a scan with the AVG software and found six listings of comtaminated files. I then attempted to heal the files, and the system told me that the files could not be healed because they were backup files. I am not sure what that meant, except that it wasn't going away. My next objective was to have the program delete the files. I couldn't find a way to make the program do that. I was tempted at that point to do a complete factory restore like I had just spent the last three days doing to cure a crash problem. Not wanting to spend the next three days reprograming all of the software on my system again, I thought that it was probably not nessissary. So, I decided that I could uninstall my Java program and that would get rid of the virus. I did, it didn't. The files remained. Only one thing left to do, and that was to run a v-scan again and follow the filepath to the infected files and delete them manually. I did, And I did, and it worked. I ran a thrid scan and found the system clean, and then initiatied the restore function on my system and restored my system to the morning following the day I finished my factory restore and reprogram.

My system now functions flawlessly, and I reconstructed my backup system and hopefully the next time I have to restore it won't take three days to get things back to the way they are now.

Here is a question though, that I fortunately thought of before I did the restore, and made this mistake. Isn't it true that it would be a mistake to do a Restore to the system, before you clear the system of the contaminated files, bacause the Virus would remain still on the system in the restore records, thus making the possiblity of the system still getting contaminated at some future date?

Thanx guys,