Thanks for your responses and learned advice it is greatly appreciated!! I wanted to clarify how the recovery was initiated, the program used, the Operating system and the media type so I do not leave anything out and that others may benefit from this great website and the uber geeks that help out those of us in need. The recovery was made from a factory partition on the hard drive by pressing F11 at bootup. Program used to perform backups (prior to Recovery): Windows 7 Backup and Restore utility, from the Start Orb>Maintenance folder> Backup and Restore>set up backup>save backup on> Note: from here you select where the backup would be saved, Windows wants you to use an external drive but in this case I used Sony DVD-Rs. I could have made a system image (which would have included the Windows files, OS) using an external hard drive, I elected only to back up files to DVD-R. The real benefit of a large external drive would be to schedule backups as long as the external drive remained connected to the computer. OS used: Windows 7 Home Premium SP 1. Media used: Sony DVD-R discs. As I mentioned before we had copied pictures and documents to an external hard drive. I then scanned that external drive with Avira antivirus on one computer, with rootkits option ticked and it came up negative. I then attached it to another computer running an updated Panda Internet Security 2013 set to scan all file extensions and to delete any malware discovered. Panda IS 2013 uses the cloud, (probably their servers) it turned up negative. I then (after updating) ran Malwarebytes Pro version 1.51.0.1200 full scan and it turned up negative as well. I elected not to run the back-ups made on DVDs based on the chance there could be a backed up piece of malware on the discs. I went ahead and copied only photographs from the backed up Documents folder. I turned off system restore and scanned with Avira antivirus after it had been updated and it came out clean. I ran the scanner (after updating) for Malwarebytes and Superantispyware and it came up clean as well. I’m hoping for the best here after doing a recovery from the partition on the hard drive. I ran the Windows Malicious software removal tool it discovered and removed the DOS/Alureon infection. I rebooted and installed TDSSKiller, ran the scanner, it found and cured the Rootkit.Boot.pihar.c. All other scans by all the above mentioned anti-malware programs came back clean. If anyone has any constructive comments or advice I’m all ears. Thanks for everybody’s time and effort on an excellent community of anti-malware crusaders!!