topic Re: Sony Vaio Virus in PCs & Accessories

Sony Vaio Virus

ppesonyvaio — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:52:53 GMT

Hi, i wounder if i had virus on my computer and then did i factory reset the computer and i wounder if my computer still can have some virus for example FUD Crypted viruses etc?

Re: Sony Vaio Virus

rich912 — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:50:08 GMT

Hi ppesonyvaio,

As the restore to factory settings process formats the hard drive prior to reinstating the system there is no possibility that viruses remain, crypted or otherwise, unless your recovery partition or recovery disks are corrupted which is an unlikely scenario.

Rich

Re: Sony Vaio Virus

hayfaz — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:50:00 GMT

'unlikely' doesn't mean impossible though.

Re: Sony Vaio Virus

Fender67 — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:46:46 GMT

@Rich912,

HaHa!!,

And what if the virus infects the MBR?

You can restore to the factory settings and when you think that everything's OK the virus says "Hi!! "

Your statement that there is " no possibility....." is NOT accurate.

Regards,

Re: Sony Vaio Virus

Fender67 — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:03:35 GMT

Hi again,

Not to mention what will happen if the virus or ransomware blocks the BIOS.

You can try to perform as many factory resets or restore points you wish you will not have a result.

Best practice is to contact a malware removalist, remove the infection and then perform a factory reset.

B/R,