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From: aleeuh on 26 Apr 2010 20:32
Two months ago, my computer was so full of viruses that it had asked me when
I was restarting it if I wanted to restore it back to before I was having all
of the problems that I was having with it. After I agreed to restoring it,
everything worked fine. Two weeks ago, my computer started making me find the
files of things I wanted to open before I opened them, example, if I wanted
to open Firefox, an Open With pop up would open and would make me go into
files and open it manually. But for some reason, it will not open programs
period. How can I fix this without completely re-formatting my computer?
From: Shenan Stanley on 27 Apr 2010 02:12
aleeuh wrote:
> Two months ago, my computer was so full of viruses that it had
> asked me when I was restarting it if I wanted to restore it back to
> before I was having all of the problems that I was having with it.
> After I agreed to restoring it, everything worked fine. Two weeks
> ago, my computer started making me find the files of things I
> wanted to open before I opened them, example, if I wanted to open
> Firefox, an Open With pop up would open and would make me go into
> files and open it manually. But for some reason, it will not open
> programs period. How can I fix this without completely
> re-formatting my computer?

*You* cannot.

And any competent technician, after hearing what you just posted here, would
surely recommend a full backup and clean installation followed immediately
by the installation of reliable AntiVirus software and AntiMalware software
and setting your firewall exceptions to "No Exceptions". Automatic updates
on and would give you a user-level account for everyday use.

Microsoft's System Restore is not a backup plan or way to get rid of a
virus - it only deals with the important system files. Your computer may
have seemed to have 'worked fine' - but unless you mis-spoke and the system
restore you speak of was not from Microsoft but some other imaging utility
that overwrote everything - it was probably far from clean.

Probably not what you wanted to hear.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html


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