Re: A virus which I'm having incredible removing

From: Don Phillipson (nospam_at_wanted.tnx)
Date: 03/26/04 

Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:41:31 -0500

"Kate C." <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8B1E94C8-0291-4536-A5E1-D47481EBB828@microsoft.com...
> I have the reccomended AVG free virus remover from Grisoft. And about
three times at this point it's shown this message:
> "AVG has detected a virus in
c:\SystemVolumeInformation\_restore{1D754853-CD2B-4287....}\RP166\A0068777.d
ll
> Please use the scanner to find and fix it". Anyway, the first time I got
this message, I opened AVG for windows and scanned in the C drive for it,
only to see no virus was found.
>
> I then got the same message another two times and finally wrote down most
of the location. To begin with, I didn't even know I had a system volume
information folder. So I went into folder options in the control panel and
set it to show all files. I wanted to understand just what kind of thing I
was dealing with here so I went to C:\ and tried to open the now apparent
"System Volume Information" folder only to find "access is denied". And this
is on a personal computer. Just what is "System Volume Information"? Is it
possible for there to be a virus in there? And if there is, how can I access
it?

Standard Win9? installation has no folder
 c:\SystemVolumeInformation\
(but you did not say what OS you use.)

You can use DOS and
C:> DIR Sys*.*
If you are sure this is a bogus folder
C:> DELTREE \Syst*.*
and reboot.

But ask first in a NG that specialises
in your Operating System whether
this is a normal folder. DOS
ignores the protection built into Windows. 

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)

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