Comments for Can I recover from a virus by just restoring my registry?

Comment from piyantha on 2009-03-18

2009-03-19T03:04:30Z

hi all, I was thinking for a long time with this idea, pls give your comments on this, when we get a virus attack, the body itself produce immunity. likewise we build immunity in computer to prevent virus and update it. my idea is that can't we write programes for kill specific viruses and let spred automaticaly over the net, these programs should halmless to computers and must active whenever its meet a virus onboard.

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Comment from George on 2008-08-04

2008-08-05T04:27:51Z

whats the difference between registry files and system files? I really enjoy your column and have learnt a great deal from it. Recently I have been hit by a virus and have not fully recovered from it. But have been able to fix it to some extent using your suggestions from various articles. I must say that i always look forward to your articles every week.

The registry is a database of information. Files are ... files. :-) More info here: Why does Windows have a registry?

-Leo

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-12-28

2007-12-28T17:32:15Z

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Anti-virus scanners certainly can scan the registry, as can
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Comment from jonathan on 2007-12-26

2007-12-27T03:04:50Z

and aslo i was thinking that virus detecter cant detect any virus form registry if that is right do i need to protect my registry

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Comment from jonathan on 2007-12-26

2007-12-27T02:55:42Z

do u know any virus protection with a registry protection form virus to and dont give me no registry cleaner i am talking about registry protection form virus and spyware thanks

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Comment from Michael Gallant on 2007-09-12

2007-09-12T13:24:34Z

how can you edit the registry to repair it after fixing an internal hard drive from virus's when the internal hard drive was attached VIA USB adapter.

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