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Hi everyone. I have a question about some problems I've been having.
I recently got assaulted by an onslaught of viruses, everything from trojans to adware to spyware. Around 200+ viruses. I upgraded all my drivers with these viruses on my computer. By all my drivers, I mean practically everything. It was all horribly out of date. Anyways, after this my computer became extremely sluggish. For example, it flat out doesn't load "my computer", (it loads for a while then just stops), when I try to look at my pictures it doesn't show the picture preview, only the default picture, and everything is just overall slow. Apps were crashing due to my computer being too slow. I cannot use my computer like this. So I wrote it off as being viruses, and sure enough I had viruses on my computer. I spent so long recovering my computer, but I believe I got rid of all the spam. However, my computer is still super slow. It's not different. So this leads me to believe one of two things:
1. I still have a virus that's causing this.
2. Upgrading my drivers slowed down my computer.
So I need to do a bit of troubleshooting. I want to go from a restore point before I updated my drivers. I have a restore point that would work. However, I am concerned that doing so would restore the viruses as well, and I do not want to do that for sure. I believe I could remove them again, but you have no idea how long it took. And that's assuming if I can actually delete them all again. Anything could go wrong.
So here's my question: Would going back to before I updated my drivers using a restore point while I had viruses on my computer restore the viruses and the old drivers, or just the old drivers?
Hi everyone. I have a question about some problems I've been having.
I recently got assaulted by an onslaught of viruses, everything from trojans to adware to spyware. Around 200+ viruses. I upgraded all my drivers with these viruses on my computer. By all my drivers, I mean practically everything. It was all horribly out of date. Anyways, after this my computer became extremely sluggish. For example, it flat out doesn't load "my computer", (it loads for a while then just stops), when I try to look at my pictures it doesn't show the picture preview, only the default picture, and everything is just overall slow. Apps were crashing due to my computer being too slow. I cannot use my computer like this. So I wrote it off as being viruses, and sure enough I had viruses on my computer. I spent so long recovering my computer, but I believe I got rid of all the spam. However, my computer is still super slow. It's not different. So this leads me to believe one of two things:
1. I still have a virus that's causing this.
2. Upgrading my drivers slowed down my computer.
So I need to do a bit of troubleshooting. I want to go from a restore point before I updated my drivers. I have a restore point that would work. However, I am concerned that doing so would restore the viruses as well, and I do not want to do that for sure. I believe I could remove them again, but you have no idea how long it took. And that's assuming if I can actually delete them all again. Anything could go wrong.
So here's my question: Would going back to before I updated my drivers using a restore point while I had viruses on my computer restore the viruses and the old drivers, or just the old drivers?
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