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Originally Posted by davemac
Not sure I understand your reasoning on that, could you explain why you think restoring is advantageous to viruses.
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I think(but could have got hold of the wrong end of the stick - if so, I am pretty sure someone with superior knowledge will tell me) that some viruses/trojans affect the Rootkit and so taking the computer back doesn't do anything to remove them, so your machine is still infected......or that is the info that I was once given when my old machine got tripped up with a trojan......it seems that the infection is right into the guts of the workings.
My old computer had to go into the computer hospital and have itself restored from scratch...OS wiped and OS installed from the original disk.
An expensive learning curve.