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Restore points/Shadow copies removed after running
Boggin:
Did you create the back up pre-requisites before running WR and what was the purpose of running WR ?
Running the program again and using the restore on there may get them back, but you will need to wait until Monday for Shane to get back to you on this if that's a no-go.
Rodj:
--- Quote from: Boggin on March 07, 2015, 09:30:23 am ---Did you create the back up pre-requisites before running WR and what was the purpose of running WR ?
Running the program again and using the restore on there may get them back, but you will need to wait until Monday for Shane to get back to you on this if that's a no-go.
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I ran it because there was many problems with it before.
Some are: broken Windows Installer.
Programs fail at trying to update or run.
Both of these got fixed after running.
Shane:
None of my repairs touch the restore points, so if the restore points where gone after the repairs then one of the MS commands must have removed them for some reason. As MS has some built in conditions that if met Windows will auto remove old restore points. But normally the restore points are always there after the repairs.
When it does though it should record it into the event viewer.
Here is a few of the possible event viewer IDs, do you see any of them in there?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2506576
Shane
Rick:
--- Quote from: Rodj on March 07, 2015, 07:50:51 am ---
--- Quote from: Boggin on March 07, 2015, 02:16:39 am ---Removing restore points is the first defence of any infection, so they are gone.
The only sure way to counter any ransom ware is to create system images to external media and if you have pictures and important docs on any machine, it's imperative that you have external back ups as you could lose all of those anyway in the case of HDD failure.
This looks like a lesson learned the hard way.
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No, I had it even after removing it, They disappeared after using the tweaking program.
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I too continue to learn hard lessons.
One, keep an offline backup :(
two, don't download or visit sites without thinking more carefully about what you are downloading
three, consider using an email service online that captures all mails before they get sent to you from unknown senders.
four, go back to only texting with HTML formatting in emailing programs.
five, one cmptr for games, one for work
other than that, life is just great!
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