backup before installing anti-virus

[soulfood]

hi , is it a good idea to do a backup of hard drive before installing anti-virus software? that way if the anti-virus programs stuffs up you can go back and start from there. because i've heard that it is hard to uninstall anti-virus from the system. once it is in there. thanks

 

[Brink]

Hello soulfood,

You could do that or create a restore point before doing so.

What AV are you installing? Most have a separate uninstaller tool that you could use to remove them if they don't uninstall normally?

 

[soulfood]

thanks for the reply, i am installing kaspersky pure 3.0, this a question i should already know (but i forgot) , how do you create a restore point? thanks again

 

[Brink]

No problem.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/697-system-restore-point-create.html

 

[soulfood]

simple question again, you don't have to be online to do a restore point do you?

 

[Brink]

Nope.