virus help

[Nostradamus]

a good way to avoid the stuff is simply stay off the warez, torrent and porn sites for starters and don't follow links popsted by others on social media sites

[kijiji]

That may or may not work if the virus, trojan or malware is hiding in the root directory or zero partition, some of the new stuff will hide and not go away on a re-install if they are the real tough ones, I have run into several lately that will not go away by doing this.

The virus guys are getting smarter, some I have seen where the infection is actually hiding on the "D" supposedly protected partition, you would have to have or get a hold of of the actual OS disks and driver disks, and do a full format of the drive, some of the newer systems do not come with re-installation disks, you have to order them from the factory first.

I have to do maybe one a month like this.

In 99.99% of the time reinstalling windows will certainly take care and rid your puter of ANY and ALL virus's scanning with anti virus proggies dose very little to rid your puter of virus's 100% !

[Nostradamus]

works a lot better if you delete all partitions, make sure you a complete reboot recreate partitions and then install windows

[kijiji]

not really most love to attach in the registry as well.Either way the best way is delete all partitions and reinstall the os.

[steveOtoo]

If you can find a program called Acronis it will completely clean up your HDD and reformat. Like starting with a brand new hardrive.

[Anubis]

i did the malwarebytes,but not in safe mode,will try in safe mode,thanks
anybody reccomend a pc around $600

Why a new cpu?
What do you have now with what ram?

[Terryl]

Well some cant do this as they do not have the install disks for some older programs, and some do not know how to store and recover their personal data.

I do this as a sideline to keep from going bat bonkers during the long winter nights, most peeps around here never update their AV programs anyway, it keeps me very busy and in cash.

I have run into some that have not gone away with an overwrite or format (standard format) of the "C" drive.

This is why I have a hard drive test bed, and a hardened laptop with professional AV, Malware, spyware and hard drive diagnostic software on it. I also have a military hard format program, it takes the whole drive down to zero data, then with the drives factory software it comes back up as a factory new out of the box drive.

All a standard format does is put a _ on the front of the program name, like word.exe becomes _ord.exe, you can recover from a standard format. (at least I can)

The format program I use writes all zeros ten times then all ones ten times, then back to all "0", you then have to re-install the factory "0" sector info and bad sector info, this puts it back to drive new out of the box.

This wipes every last bit of data and stray bits, nothing as far as any type of program or data survives this operation, but without an operating system nd hardware drivers for that system to put back on the drive its useless.

[Anubis]

Best not to debate this until we know what computer if brand name and if not what motherboard and processor as well as ram and hard drive is stated. JMO
I don't care about all the tricks of the trade but bottom line is if you want to clean it, know what system you are dealing with first.

[Terryl]

I use a .44 magnum on some.

[iq180]

The best way to never have this problem is to clone your HDD, then you have a backup, I have a clone of every computer I own and
some I dont own, Acronis True Image is what I use.

[Nostradamus]

a backup is a good plan but it will not fix the nastier ones that get down to te lower levels of the hard drive

[bjim]

wow,can't keep up with all this,my computer was home made by a friend around 12 yrs ago,i have about 990 dram,i installed 1000,proccesser is i think about 2.2g,instead of a 44mag i was thinking more along the lines of 12 ga double odd buck shot,i have an xp disc and 2nd service pack disc,will try and reinstall after i buy a new pc(it's time),oh ran malwares in safe mode twice,no threats detected,and i believe i got infected when i opened an attachment in an email(i knew not to,but did anyway,crap)well thanks for all the input,will keep playing with it

[Nostradamus]

well if you buy a new one you can forget about using XP on it as more than likely there will be hardware inside that there is no xp drivers for. Even if that all worked for you, there is no longer any support for that OS so basically XP has gone the same way the dinosaur and the Edsel. A new system should come with Windows 8.1 installed although some places are still blowing out older models with Win 7 in them

[Anubis]

wow,can't keep up with all this,my computer was home made by a friend around 12 yrs ago,i have about 990 dram,i installed 1000,proccesser is i think about 2.2g,instead of a 44mag i was thinking more along the lines of 12 ga double odd buck shot,i have an xp disc and 2nd service pack disc,will try and reinstall after i buy a new pc(it's time),oh ran malwares in safe mode twice,no threats detected,and i believe i got infected when i opened an attachment in an email(i knew not to,but did anyway,crap)well thanks for all the input,will keep playing with it

If you are capable of connecting to the net run this...http://www.eset.com/us/online-scanner/

Personally from this post I would pack it in and upgrade to a newer computer however I don't recommend changing the operating system it came with but you should learn it as it will be a big learning curve.

Just a FYI, Windows 9 is just around the corner.

[iq180]

wow,can't keep up with all this,my computer was home made by a friend around 12 yrs ago,i have about 990 dram,i installed 1000,proccesser is i think about 2.2g,instead of a 44mag i was thinking more along the lines of 12 ga double odd buck shot,i have an xp disc and 2nd service pack disc,will try and reinstall after i buy a new pc(it's time),oh ran malwares in safe mode twice,no threats detected,and i believe i got infected when i opened an attachment in an email(i knew not to,but did anyway,crap)well thanks for all the input,will keep playing with it

Why would you want XP and not Windows 7, I think Windows 7 is the best of all,JMO,LOL.