Equium A100 - issue of viruses

I have a laptop Satellite A100-147.

Yesterday, I contracted a virus/malware that disabled my windows updates and kept giving me pop - up messages about infections. Also, several new icons appeared next to the clock - one in particular was a shield and was called "Vista Antivirus 2008.

Some disreputable icons also appeared on my desk.
It was clear that I had some infections - I ran Mcafee and Spybot which helped but latop has always been very slow.
Ultimately I have backed up the data and run the utility of Toshiba restore program.

However, shortly after the restoration more pop ups and icons appeared. Aagin I cleaned the but Iam still problems - Windows updates is disabled and cannot be enabled, and Windows System Restore will not work.

Is is possible that the first virus has infected the hidden with the OS partition?

Should I format the C: before you rerun the restore utility?

When restore is executed, is the resistry be rewritten?

Any help would be great.

Ryan

Hello

> Is is possible that the first virus has infected the hidden with the OS partition?
Hmm, it's NOT impossible.

In my opinion you take the Toshiba Recovery CD and should use and should restore the laptop everything to factory settings.
Of course, this procedure would be to format the whole HARD drive and erase all partitions.
But it will help kill viruses and spyware.

Good luck

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