paddyonline
2010-02-25, 18:57
Hello,
My laptop was infected with the "Vista Security 2010..." malware & I used Spyware S&D to get rid of it. But, before Spybot S&D ran it asked me if I wanted to backup my registry files, which I did.
On reading about the "Vista Security..." malware, I saw that it creates its entries in the system registry.
Now even though my laptop is clean, will the Registry Backup which Spybot S&D made before it cleaned out the malware come back to bite me someday ? Can the malware reactivate at a later day using the Registry backup? OR Is it safe to delete registry back files which Spybot S&D created ?
Thanks !!
My laptop was infected with the "Vista Security 2010..." malware & I used Spyware S&D to get rid of it. But, before Spybot S&D ran it asked me if I wanted to backup my registry files, which I did.
On reading about the "Vista Security..." malware, I saw that it creates its entries in the system registry.
Now even though my laptop is clean, will the Registry Backup which Spybot S&D made before it cleaned out the malware come back to bite me someday ? Can the malware reactivate at a later day using the Registry backup? OR Is it safe to delete registry back files which Spybot S&D created ?
Thanks !!