Backdoor Win:32 Should I do a system recovery?

Hey everyone. Usually when I get a virus I do a system recovery because I don't really have any important files. Today I woke my laptop up and Microsoft secruity essentials said it found "Backdoor win:32" virus thing on a severe level of threat. It said it was removed but I did 2 full scans, 1 by malwarebytes and 1 by MSE. The MSE one isn't done yet but it says The perlimary scan might have found malicious or unwanted software might be in my system.

So my main question is if it finds something, should I do a full system recovery? Or what?

 

The scan found 4 trojan things and I removed them. But I'm afraid it might have dropped more. Should I do a system recovery?

 

If it makes you feel comfortable, and you've backed up your documents, go and do one.

Have you ran MSE and Malwarebytes in Safe Mode? I'd run a scan of each there too to see if they find anything else.

 

First make sure that the quarantined file is actually malicious.
Although MSE scores very well regarding false positives, it's still possible that MSE flagged a clean file as 'bad'.
Upload it f.i. to VirusTotal.com for a second-opinion.

Did MBAM find 4 more trojans?
In that case, I'd do a clean install/put back a clean image.

 

Ok before I do a system recovery just to be safe, How can I back up my save files of games like half life 2, GTA 4, etc.

 

ok I cant even do a system recovery I press f11 on the boot up screen and it just boots up normally

 

You have to press F8, not F11 right after POS screen.

My advice would be to hold off on system restore until you do something else.

Make sure both MSE and MBAM are fully updated.

Restart the computer in Safe Mode and run full scans with both MSE and MBAM from there.

That should take care of any remaining threats.

 

most good viruses and trojans infect restore points. along with mbam, i'd dl and run superantispyware free edition. it gets a lot of things mbam misses. stop using limewire and you won't get viruses.