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Showing posts with label remove viruses. Show all posts

Manually Removing Computer Viruses

Removing a computer virus is a time consuming task. Nobody ever has just one single virus, and having a virus is lik having an ant in your house, it usually returns with an army. A virus scanner is a good deterrent, but if the product is out of date then its a useless product. Tracking down a virus is a matter of knowing what processes on the computer are running, and what should not be running. Any process with a suspicious sounding name or one that's consuming much system resources could be an indication of something more evil. Tools to help are system config (Msconfig.exe), task manager and autoruns. When finding a suspect process, look it up on google. If it does turn out to be a virus or malware then sometimes killing the process will work. You also have to find where its called from, and delete its keys in the registry, start service or start-up program. Malware bytes file assassin can take care of locked files. Once all threats have been removed its a matter of rebooting and checking the computer, usually you're looking at 2 hours work, and sometimes if things are really bad you have to decide, its cheaper to wipe the hard drive and reload windows!

#LINKS:
1. AUTORUNS - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx
2. MALWARE BYTES FILE ASSASSIN - http://www.malwarebytes.org/fileassassin.php
Posted on 1/04/2010 12:08:00 AM by ket@n and filed under | 0 Comments »

How To Remove "autorun.inf"

Well unfortunately the systems in my university lab are full of viruses. Whenever i plugged my usb/flash drives at my univ, it gets affected by viruses.I have tried many anti-viruses, most of them were able to delete/disinfect viruses but were not able to delete the key to viruses, the “Autorun.inf“ file.You may have noticed this file in your flash drives or hard disk.
Almost all of the viruses which reside in flash drives use “Autorun.inf” to execute the EXE file.Whenever u try to delete this file, it gives an error saying this file cant be deleted coz its in use...
Now the question is how to remove the autorun.inf file along with the viruses.

A) Remove these files manually using DOS Command Prompt:-
Go to Start->Run>Type “cmd [Without Quotes]
Then use the following commands
X: Where X is your flashdrive
attrib -s -h -r autorun.inf Changing the attributes of the file

del autorun.inf Deleting the file

NOTE:
1. Here, -s -h ,-r means we are removing the attributes system file, hidden, read only resp.(if any) so that it can be deleted.
2. Hold 'shift' while inserting the flash drive for 10-15 sec to disable autorun temporarily.


B)Using Smart-Antivirus :
i found a small piece of software....
Posted on 3/24/2009 08:35:00 AM by ket@n and filed under , , | 0 Comments »