Factory restore error?

I did a factory restore and now all my protected operating system files are now automatically shown instead of having to click the box in folder options to get them to show, in other words they are being shown with folder options saying its hiding them. Is this a possible security risk? And how do I fix it?

 

It's actually insecure to not show them. Someone could just change the attibute of a malicous file to +S and you wouldn't see the file if you have that turned off.
Try another user profile. Make a new one if you have to. It's just a reg entry that may not be taking.

 

I have a few questions.

1. Why did you perform a factory restore?

2. What is your OS, and Service Pack?


Sometimes if you are wiping because of malware, you may not get rid of it. A Windows "format" is a low level type, which does leave some data recoverable.

Please add some details, please...

 

Right, I'm sorry, I did a factory restore because of a Trojan(graybird)and some spyware although I'm not sure if the spyware was a false positive since the program that found it is outdated. Program called ewido, stats: win7, service pack 1

 

Recoverable but it poses no danger.

 

Just for good measure, please install and run this software using the free scanner:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/malwarebytes_anti_malware.html


Also, just to error on the side of caution, use this to scan for what are known as "rootkits":

http://usa.kaspersky.com/downloads/tdsskiller


Let us know what you find...

 

Wrong.

Rootkits have been known to survive full formats. DBAN is a good tool for writing zeros to a drive, but sometimes rootkits are hard to kill.

 

Only rootkits that infect the BIOS are a problem. You have to flash the BIOS to get rid of them.
Read all about it here and here.

Anyways, I'm tired of arguing with you today.

 

Yet again, minutia. Knock it off.

Pointless, aberrant topic which does not help the user who started the thread. Let's see the scans, the logs, and let's see if a bug pops up after the format. It could also be in the MBR.

 

Kaspersky and Anti-malware found nothing, so does it also mean theres nothing in BIOS?

 

Your MBR came back clean, as did the rest of the scan. It is unlikely but not impossible your BIOS is infected. A BIOS flash is ordinarily an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" type of procedure. The unordinary situation is with newer, high end aftermarket (Asus, Biostar, EVGA, etc.) hardware when new editions of the BIOS upgrade hardware compatiblity.

Are you performing this restore with software discs, or via a recovery partition?

If you are using a recovery partition, please make sure to scan it as well just to be sure there's nothing lurking there either.

 

Ah, alright thanks! I'll scan right away