The restore? It isn't risky at all.

If you want to wait, that is perfectly fine, but to be honest I am like 99.9999999% positive that it is impossible to mess up on a factory restore. It is a simple click of the "ok" button.

If you do a straight reinstall instead of a destructive restore, your stuff will still there, and you might retain the malware thingy. If you do a destructive restore, you'll get rid of the bug almost guaranteed, but you'll lose your stuff along with it. That's why you'll want to back up all the stuff you can't easily get back before you start nuking your Windows,

Oh yeah, for the record - always have a up-to-date antivirus program, a real firewall instead of that flimsy crap that comes along with Windows, and at least two different programs for spy/malware detection and removal.

yea.. sorry dude.
i'm not much help. u prollie already know all i've sed or at least experiencing it right now...

it is a hassle removing trojan 'cuz they can mask themselves. i wuz pretty fighting a virus for a period of six months and i did a pretty good job keeping at bay. but i couldn't live knowing that i can only keep it at bay... and knowing that it is not removed...

ahh.. i hate them viruses.. u knoe what's funny though is that most of these viruses are from europe and sometimes asia.. (IMO; From my experiences)
damn it! no offense, y'all..

oh, also, dude... vundo i think is mostly triggered just by using an internet browser.. hahah.

gud luck, mayne. hopefully u'r uncle can give u assistance better than we could (or i could anywayz.. hahah)

It doesn't actually "Destroy" your PC. It just deletes everything you added after you bought it.

The setup is just the usual setup your internet connection, give your PC a name, etc... all extremely easy and very basic.

The recovery takes like 30 mins, the setup takes like 30 seconds.

Give the brand of your PC/Laptop and I can give you "Destructive restore for dummies" tutorial.

I should have just answered your question easy. It is Destroy, ok, then boots up as normal. Pretty much the same as any other restore you have done, only it goes to day 1.

Run:

services.msc

this little thing brings u to administrator tools where the drivers run, i.e., Automatic Updates, Background Intelligent (for Security Center's auto updates);

msconfig

takes u to where the drivers are ran automatically when ur PC starts up; u can shut off if u don't want it to run.

regedit

is registry editor

[dxdiag = displays specs of ur PC; just fyi]


hope that helps at least.

Glad to hear you got it taken care of.

Run a full scan using superantispyware! That will make sure you got everything. http://www.superantispyware.com