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Originally Posted by Neo-Tech
Wrong. Most sophisticated viruses and trojans infect System Restore points too. 
In my opinion, remove all the Virgin crap, install Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes Antimalware and you should be good. |
depends on the virus really, the more advanced ones can affect restores, but they only usually affect windows restore, any other backup program seems to work better, and you can put the backup on a disc or usb drive or whatever
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Originally Posted by roughbeast
Yeah, but the nasty could be anywhere. For instance, if it is in the boot sector a complete reformat and system re-installation won't get rid of it.
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are you saying that the boot sector doesnt get formatted? i dont think so