Restore from quarantine

[Paul H]

I deleted about 72 system files due to a false positive, (Trojan.Downloader) but about 24 were not deleted on restart, I ran another scan and they were still there. (lucky the PC did restart I think)

This might be an obvious question, but if you know a dll,exe or drv file is valid, is it possible for malware to infect these read only system files? I presume so

Subsequently I read forum posts to say these were false positives, and have checked my Windows/system and system32 folders and most of the supposedly quaranteened files are still there. This make me wary of just restoring all the quarantined files, so should I go through and identify only those that are not present in the Windows folders?

All the quarantined fonts are not in the fonts folder, so I guess I can selectively restore them individually

All thanks toMB for providing this service by the way

Any ideas?

[mountaintree16]

Hello Paul H and welcome to the forums here at Malwarebytes.org

Post your log from each scan in the False Positives forum so that someone can check it for you

http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showforum=42

If you did restore them all, and then did a scan afterwards, anything that was NOT a FP would be caught again