How To Repair Virus Infected Computers
I have been helping people with computer problems for over 20 years now
. Viruses are rising and will continue to rise. I am using the term viruses but this pertains to viruses, spy ware, Trojans, worms, browser attacks or any combination of the above. I will explain some common steps that will take care of most of the viruses that infect your computers.
Some of the clues that show up in an infected computer are:
Blue Screen of Death
Anti virus 2009
Pop-ups
Computer seems to be freezing
Lost internet connection
Windows does not start
These are just a few; hardware problems are only about 10% of the problem.
My latest one I destroyed Virus.Win32.Virut.ce (December 21, 2009).
Your first step is to backup your data, if you cannot back it up. Then on the first possible chance you have without any executable!!!
Careful with this one as it is a bit on the tricky side. It infects and attaches itself to your executable to execute and spread itself. I watched the best anti virus programs get disabled on this one. Kaspersky Anti virus real time protection was disabled Bit Defender Anti virus would not open up to scan. Malwarebytes would not update. With no internet on this computer made this one a challenge for me.
Yes I could have pulled out the hard drive and scanned with another computer. That is no fun, beating these viruses gives a person a feeling of I crushed that one and ready for the next one. Or I could have backed up and formatted Windows.
So are you ready for the solutions? First do not do what I did; there was no real help on the web for this one that I could find. I dug into the registry and saw a couple of folders that were not supposed to be there. When I deleted them I think I upset the virus it created about 1500+ viruses at this point.
Now I have a lot of viruses on the computer and I could not get into safe mode I would get the Blue Screen of Death. I downloaded Dr Web CureIt from another computer so that it was up to date.
It found the 1500+ viruses and deleted them for me. I felt pretty good at this point thinking that was too easy and it was. I proceeded to restart Windows and found when I tried to log in; it would log me off right away.
The next step was to see if I could fix the broken Windows files. I set up the bios to boot to CD/DVD and inserted my Windows XP Disc. When the Windows Disc runs it asks you if you want to repair Windows do not use this option. Wait until it finds the Windows Operating System. At this point select your Windows Operating System, and select repair. It will look like it is installing Windows but what is it doing is repairing your Windows Structures.
Your data should not be erased I say this because it is not suppose to. If it does contact me at saskatooncomputerrepair.ca your data can still be restored from a formatted Hard Disc.
Once Windows finished I found that I could now log in. Virus.Win32.Virut.ce was not totally gone yet. I had to scan again with Dr. Web a second time reboot thinking here we go again. I was able to log in this next time and it loaded up Windows but it was looking for notepad.dll on start up.
I grabbed notepad.exe from another computer and disabled the startup entry. Then I did a search in the registry and the Windows search for notepad.dll. I found another one and deleted it. Once again I rebooted the computer and hoped to be able to log in. Another partial win as I was able to log into the profile and no notepad.dll error.
Wow I installed Malwarebytes and I was able to update, nice looking good, I then installed Bit Defender it installed and I was able to update. I am winning!!!
I ran Malwarebytes, Bit Defender, and Dr. Web; all three showed me no viruses. Done or so I thought. Remember at the beginning of the article I stated this Virus.Win32. Virut.ce It infects and attaches itself to your executable to execute and spread itself.)
I had just built a computer and installed Windows; I pulled out my USB that I used to download Dr. Web. Well it was infected and nailed the new computer. I remember USBs that had a read only switch how I miss those. Because this was a new Windows install I just re-ran the installer and made sure I formatted this computer. Lost a half hour with this new computer was all. I had to laugh about this.
You are probably asking yourself now how do I get this virus off my USB now, right? Well I have an image on my machines so in case of any problems I can run the image. I will not go into many details here as I do custom images for people so they can get rid of 99.9% of the viruses out there. The image takes only about 10 to 15 minutes on average to run and your data is safe on another drive.
A couple of solutions before I go if you download a program on an infected computer and it will not install rename the setup file some of the viruses are looking for that setup file. For example; (Malwarebytes file is mbam-setup.exe) change it to something like setup.exe. Also there are some that do not let you run it after the setup so browse to the default location (C:Program FilesMalwarebytes Anti-Mal ware) look for mbam or mbam.exe depends on if you have the extensions showing on your computer or not. Re-name mbam or mbam.exe to bam or bam.exe then start it from the file you just renamed. Also Malwarebytes takes a while to start and even longer when you are infected. This program will run in safe mode, make sure you have the latest definitions before you run it.
This is just a typical day I have when fighting viruses. I hope this helps a lot of people with the amount of stress viruses put on people. You can also contact me to do this for you. I am a Computer Programmer and viruses are written by so called programmers so I understand what the infections do.
by: TCG Computer Repair
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