One method I have found that works very well when cleaning a virus that stops you from entering the safe, normal and command prompt mode is to use another hard drive with windows 7 or windows xp on it. Just set it up as the primary drive. Connect your origional infected hard drive up as the secondary drive. You usually do not have to activate it or install windows updates. It will need the ethernet driver installed so it can access the internet. Download tdsskiller.exe, combofix, malwarebytes, spybot 2.1portable and super anti-spyware portable from the internet. Run each of these in the order above. When they have all been run shut the computer down and reconnect the original hard drive by itself. Try rebooting the system and see if it will now boot properly. I would advise to rerun the above programs and choose to update them in their selected programs. Some other programs to run are trend house-call online scanner and eset online scanner.
I have found that this method works very well with viruses such as the FBI viruses.
Friday, August 23, 2013
Simple Tools For Cleaning Viruses
There are some simple tools to have if your computer has a virus. I would recommend a 4gb or 8gb flash drive, access to another computer, dvd disk and internet access. Go online and search for Hirens 15.1 and 15.2, so you can download the iso files to a folder you created. Run a program such as Nero or Roxio to burn the iso image file to the cd. This will create a bootable cd with a number of valuable programs.
I would then download the following programs: tdsskiller.exe, combofix, malwarebytes, spybot 2.1 portable and super anti spyware portable. If you can access the hard drive, copy these to the root drive c:.
Boot into the safe mode with networking by pressing the F8 key on the keyboard during the post test if possible. Then go to the folder where the programs are stored and run them one at a time in the order mentioned above. The computer will have to rebooted during the use of the programs. Make sure to update the malwarebytes, combofix and spybot 2.1 before running the scans.
Malwarebytes places the found items in a quarantine and they can all be selected, then deleted. The same can be done with spybot 2.1 when it has finished running.
A couple of other programs that can be run are eset online scanner and trends housecall online scanner.
Always make sure when you are done that your other programs such as Microsoft Office run properly. Many times viruses may corrupt these and they will have to be re-installed over themselves to correct any corruption from the viruses.
I would then download the following programs: tdsskiller.exe, combofix, malwarebytes, spybot 2.1 portable and super anti spyware portable. If you can access the hard drive, copy these to the root drive c:.
Boot into the safe mode with networking by pressing the F8 key on the keyboard during the post test if possible. Then go to the folder where the programs are stored and run them one at a time in the order mentioned above. The computer will have to rebooted during the use of the programs. Make sure to update the malwarebytes, combofix and spybot 2.1 before running the scans.
Malwarebytes places the found items in a quarantine and they can all be selected, then deleted. The same can be done with spybot 2.1 when it has finished running.
A couple of other programs that can be run are eset online scanner and trends housecall online scanner.
Always make sure when you are done that your other programs such as Microsoft Office run properly. Many times viruses may corrupt these and they will have to be re-installed over themselves to correct any corruption from the viruses.
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