Will upgrading from XP to Vista remove a virus aswell?
Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at
5:38 am
I have had this computer for around 5 years and have been having recent problems with viruses and stuff. I was thinking that it would be worth while to upgrade to vista. Would it remove the viruses. I know it will replace the modules that were destroyed.
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Yes installing Vista would remove your anti-virus. But putting a new operating system in is like doing a system restore. It wipes everything clean. Yes XP could be to fault with your virus problems and yes Vista would help keep you more protected but is you 5 year old XP computer up to par to run the high standards of Vista? Its is a very demanding operating system and a XP computer that is 2 years old will have problems keeping up to speed with Vista. But Vista is a very good operating system. I jst think you should try and bear it out a few more months and upgrade to Windows 7 which will be more powerful, secure and lest demanding than Vista. Or you could just buy a whole new computer all together.
It’ll remove everything on your hard drive, even your music, pictures and files.
No, it will not … unless you format your hard drive first, or get Anti-Virus software and use that.
Upgrading will NOT remove a virus. Upgrading KEEPS your current files and leaves the virus in place or at least stored somewhere. Do yourself a favor and run Windows Live One Care FREE SCAN to kill the virus issue, if it can.
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