Re: virus in System Volume Information Folder

From: Doug Knox MS-MVP (dknox_at_mvps.org)
Date: 01/08/04 

Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 01:29:23 -0500

You can't remove individual files from the Restore Point. Go to Control Panel, System, System Restore. Turn System Restore off, reboot and turn it back on. 

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"Mark" <mark@lifename.com> wrote in message news:06c101c3d5a4$57f01310$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> My antivirus program keeps informing me that I have a 
> virus (dialer?) in the System Volume Information Folder 
> and advises me to run a scan to remove it.  I run the 
> scan and it finds nothing.  When I try to open the folder 
> (I "unhid" it according to Microsoft's Knowledge Base 
> Article 309531 - My computer, tools, folder options, 
> view, unchecked "hide system folders", etc) but still it 
> won't open.  If the antivirus program detects it, but 
> can't remove it, and I can't open the folder to remove it 
> myself, what can I try?

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