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Originally posted by CookieRevised
It is of no use (not much) that you do virus scans, repairs etc, unless:
1) you have turned of System Restore
2) you have booted up in Safe Mode with an absolute minimal config.
Not necessarily cookie, I know for a fact that the anti virus I adore and swear by (Kaspersky) does in fact scan the system restore save location for infections and cleans/removes them from there also.
On a side note, sometimes booting into safe mode is not an option and sometimes, certain viruses, cripple the system and are smart enough to replace explorer with their own version, which calls the real explorer and also calls it's on set of infected dlls, then it really doesn't matter does it? (I have seen this happen fyi).
Although, in most scenarios, things are just more effective if scanned from safemode, as like you pointed out, it's essentially a bare bones mode intended for such a purpose as outlined above.
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