I agree with Andre completely! Reformatting the hard disk and reinstalling
the Operating System or recovering from a known good disk image is the only
way to be sure the malware is removed. Anything short of that will likely
have a small remnant left over that will infect the whole computer again or
will damage necessary system files in the process.
Most likely, your computer will run faster anyway, since Windows really
needs to be reinstalled about once a year just to clean out the clutter and
the registry.
Don Marang
There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real
substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working
on things that matter.
Dean Kamen
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From: "Andre Williams" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 6:34 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] removing a virus
Tell him to reformat and reinstall the operating system. With viruses now
a
days you can never be sure if they're cleaned off completely In the hours
and possibly days he's going to spend trying to figure this out and trying
to clean his computer he can save himself the time and trouble and
reformat
and reload windows in about 2 hours. This happened to me sometime back and
from the time I realized I had a virus placing 300 items on my system tray
until the time I reinstalled and image of my hard drive it must have been
an
hour. Image for Windows to the rescue! He also poses a danger to other
computers on the network at his job.
Andre
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lenny McHugh" <[email protected]>
To: "blind computing" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 3:23 PM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] removing a virus
I am trying to help a friend remove a virus from his work computer. Avg
did
identify it and reported that it could not be removed because it was in
memory. He did not write the name down but it is in win32. The computer
can
only be started in safe mode and if he lets it run it gives a message that
chkdsk should be run with the f switch. That also will not run when the
machine is restarted. He turn system restore off and ran avg and it did
not
help.
He is using xp professional. He also ran kapersky and it did not help. Any
quick suggestions?
Thanks
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