A sneaky, and annoying virus

[donaldj]

I hate to bump threads, but i'm beginning to feel a little dejected.

 

[techpro5238]

Sorry, I was developing it but I'll just link it:

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/f0688925-5abe-4caf-b49a-018f8cfcaf4d1033.mspx#E3

Follow that and disable your restore points. Then restart your computer. The reenable your restore points.

Then your all clean

 

[donaldj]

So, System Restore was never on to begin with, and when I tried to turn it on and make my first restore point, it gave me the following error message:

The Restore point could not be created for the following reason:

Insufficient storage available to create either the shadow copy storage file or other shadow copy data (0x8004321F)

Please Try again

Other various apps found that there was not sufficient data to do stuff (Including Norton 360).

I originally put this down to the virus being annoying, but now that you've said I'm clean, maybe it's something else?

 

[techpro5238]

What exactly is the issue? Yes, your all clear.

 

[donaldj]

Srry... I was rushing off to dinner when I typed that...

Firstly, I never had system restore on to begin with. So, when I went into the System Protection window to turn it on, and create a restore point*, it gave me the following error message:

The Restore point could not be created for the following reason:

Insufficient storage available to create either the shadow copy storage file or other shadow copy data (0x8004321F)

Please Try again

Rather annoying really.

Other applications are giving me lack-of-storage problems also. I put this down to the virus in the past, however.

*Specifically when it was trying to create the restore point itself. It was mid restore point creation.

 

[techpro5238]

You just need some cleaning, and a new hard drive

Your all clear from here.