Virus Disabled System Restore & Windows Security
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From: Doug R on 25 May 2010 13:10 Hello All, Some months back I was infected by some virus but running Malwarebytes and other anti virus programs cleaned it up......or so I thought. I just realized that it disabled System Restore and Windows Security Service Center. When I try to turn on Security Center I get an error message saying it can't be started and when I go to system restore I get a "System Restore has been turned off by system admin". I can't use System Restore at all now. I run Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit and System Restore is a tool that I need. Does anyone have any ideas how I can get these features working again. Thank you.
From: Wolf K on 25 May 2010 14:51 On 25/05/2010 13:10, Doug R wrote: > Hello All, > Some months back I was infected by some virus but running Malwarebytes > and other anti virus programs cleaned it up......or so I thought. I > just realized that it disabled System Restore and Windows Security > Service Center. When I try to turn on Security Center I get an error > message saying it can't be started and when I go to system restore I > get a "System Restore has been turned off by system admin". I can't > use System Restore at all now. I run Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit and > System Restore is a tool that I need. Does anyone have any ideas how I > can get these features working again. > Thank you. Google is your friend. I found: "can't turn on system restore in windows 7 http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows7/Turn-System-Restore-on-or-off "can't turn on security centre in windows 7" yielded this among others: http://forums.cnet.com/5208-19411_102-0.html?threadID=352274 Hope these help, you can always do another search yourself. wolf k.
From: David H. Lipman on 25 May 2010 15:29 From: "Doug R" <scootersite(a)NOSPAMhotmail.com> | Hello All, | Some months back I was infected by some virus but running Malwarebytes | and other anti virus programs cleaned it up......or so I thought. I | just realized that it disabled System Restore and Windows Security | Service Center. When I try to turn on Security Center I get an error | message saying it can't be started and when I go to system restore I | get a "System Restore has been turned off by system admin". I can't | use System Restore at all now. I run Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit and | System Restore is a tool that I need. Does anyone have any ideas how I | can get these features working again. | Thank you. Malware wants to stay on the PC as long as it can. It will perform measures of "self preservation" such that it makes it harder to remove. The NT Based OS has "policies" that can be used in an environemnt to set restrictions on the users as needed by the administrator. The Policies can be set on a Active Directoty Domain and are called Group Policies. The Policies that are set on the PC are known as Local Policies. The malicious authors have learned to incoporate these administrative local policies into their malware as maesures of self preservation. Usually MBAM will remove thse Policies. The message "System Restore has been turned off by system admin" is indicative of such a local policy. There are two possibilities, you are still infected or MBAM missed resetting the assocaited policies. You said you used MBAM "Some months back". Have you updated it to v1.46 and run an scan since you found thsese problems ? Note: There is no need to Multi-Post those that read alt.comp.virus also read alt.comp.anti-virus . The objective is to Cross-Post to both groups. That is put BOTH alt.comp.virus & alt.comp.anti-virus on the line (and any other related groups) for what news groups you want to post to. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: Doug R on 25 May 2010 19:42 Thanks WolfK but I've tried all those options. Every place where it's conceivable to turn on System Restore is grayed out and I get the message "System Restore has been turned off by your administrato". Is there anything I can do to turn it back on? >On 25/05/2010 13:10, Doug R wrote: >> Hello All, >> Some months back I was infected by some virus but running Malwarebytes >> and other anti virus programs cleaned it up......or so I thought. I >> just realized that it disabled System Restore and Windows Security >> Service Center. When I try to turn on Security Center I get an error >> message saying it can't be started and when I go to system restore I >> get a "System Restore has been turned off by system admin". I can't >> use System Restore at all now. I run Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit and >> System Restore is a tool that I need. Does anyone have any ideas how I >> can get these features working again. >> Thank you. > >Google is your friend. I found: > >"can't turn on system restore in windows 7 > >http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows7/Turn-System-Restore-on-or-off > >"can't turn on security centre in windows 7" yielded this among others: > >http://forums.cnet.com/5208-19411_102-0.html?threadID=352274 > >Hope these help, you can always do another search yourself. > >wolf k.
From: Dustin Cook on 25 May 2010 22:15
ASCII <me2(a)privacy.net> wrote in news:4bfc113f.3947296(a)EDCBIC: > Doug R wrote: >>Some months back I was infected by some virus but running Malwarebytes >>and other anti virus programs cleaned it up > > MBAM isn't known to be antiviral, won't even detect; IroK, Toady, Krilie, > Weed, Rustybug, all written and distributed by someone claiming to be a > 'malware researcher' for the company. At least until the super secret > circumstances of his separation transpired. Most infections these days aren't viral; but trojans... Malwarebytes deals with that stuff just fine. It's never claimed to be antivirus; but antimalware. All of the claims, the viruses and the researcher for the company are true. The reasons I am no longer with them will remain between myself and them. I don't believe that has any relevancy here; except to say, since I did go my own way, it stands to reason, that I did work for them.. Doh! (homer simpson style). -- Are you a former BBSer? Want to go back in time to the old days of ANSI and Renegade? Fire up telnet and go here then: ttb.slyip.com |