How do i perform a system recovery on windows xp when i dont have a recovery disk.?

Question

i seem to have a winantivir that i dont know where it came from and it kept on scanning my computer and found loads of viruses so i installed bitdefender but then that got infected i was hoping that a system recovery or reboot would sort it but i dont know how to do a system recovery and i cant find my disk!! hope you can help me

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi. Looks like your computer is running with stupid six or eight-legged bugs!

These are the best antivirus and antispyware that i've ever had:

Avira AntiVir Personal Edition Classic (Free)

http://www.download.com/Avira-AntiVir-Pe...

(Avira is better than AVG, based on my experience. McAfee and Norton are the worst ones, so don't ever trust them)

Spyware Doctor Starter Edition (Free)

http://www.download.com/Spyware-Doctor-S...

(Spydoc is my lifesaver. when I had a horrible virus once, this one has been the only solution. Spyware Doctor is kinda system hog, though... running it requires a lot of memory and uses a big deal of resources on CPU. I suggest disabling it after every use)

Update these two programs regularly.

Also, download Smitfraudfix

http://siri.geekstogo.com/SmitfraudFix.p...

and also Kaizer Virus Killer

http://www.pinoyspy.net/node/4754

(download link somewhere below)

They are DOS-based applications, but worked very fine on my computer! Don't be afraid using DOS applications, just follow the instructions and everything will be fine. In the Kaizer Killer, all you have to do is to double-click the application and it automatically removes most viruses in a heartbeat. Just use them in Safe Mode (to start in Safe Mode, press F8 a couple of times before the boot logo appears, you will be prompted to select one of the Startup options, and choose Safe Mode)

The programs detected the viruses that has not been detected by the two GUI programs.

Use Mozilla Firefox as your default browser (because it's absolutely the best browser ever) and always remember to update Windows for system stability.

Hope this works for you. :)

Answer 2

you don't need to format your computer win anti virus is malware the so called viruses it keeps finding are fake what it's trying to do is get you to buy it's useless anti virus by scaring you

the way you get infected with it is either by installing an application that carries it (trojan method) or by using a browser that has active x enabled (usually internet explorer) the way to get rid of it is to install spyware doctor from here http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/?r...

spyware doctor from pc tools will get rid of it, it removed anti virus 2008 from a friend computer no problem, after that install a good anti virus such as avira http://www.free-av.com/ or avg http://free.avg.com/ww.download?prd=afe

Answer 3

Goto msn downloads factory reset on the net

Answer 4

Re-installing your OS just because of adware is a ridiculous answer, its time consuming and you will have to re-install all the updates, run malwarebyteshttp://malwarebytes-anti-malware-1-16-fr...

Answer 5

you should be able to create the recovery disks

or you can use the recovery partiton to recover the pc

probably a F function on the pc during startup

depending on your pc