2007-07-13 02:41:58 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Wipe your hardrive and reinstall windows, it will make you feel refreshed!
2007-07-13 02:45:09 · answer #1 · answered by SquiRel 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It should help, depending on what you mean by recovering. If you mean reloading the operating system, this should help however you will lose everything on your computer. If you mean like a virus scan recovery, it might. The virus scan recovery didn't work for the computer I was fixing for a friend of mine.
What I ended up doing was loading up the computer as normal, as soon as it loaded, I pressed Ctrl + Alt + Delete and canceled all the processes that possessed odd characters such as boxes, squiggles, or anything else like this (there were about 20-30 of them running on their computer). I then did a system restore back to a date before they were having problems which worked good enough so that I was able to install virus scanning software which found around 15 viruses on their computer. I also installed Lavasoft Adaware on their computer which found another around 50 spyware infections on their computer. By the time I was done it was running much better and good again (which is surprising because they were told by a PC shop that it was dead).
What I'm trying to say, do whatever you have to do to get these off, even if it comes to reloading you OS and completely restarting. When you get it up and running, get a Virus Scan, Firewall, and mulitple Spyware scanners (I use Windows Defender, Lavasoft Adaware 2007, and Spybot search and destroy).
Hope this helps!
2007-07-13 02:52:03 · answer #2 · answered by cojle2009 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you mean going back to one of the earlier Restore Points, the answers is yes and no. It may get you to a point before the virus was infecting your PC, and it will not remove the files that actually are the virus and so it will reinfect the PC.
If you mean totally wiping the hard drive, using the Recovery Disk to format the hard drive and install Windows, then yes it will. But it will also wipe any music, pictures, etc you have on the computer.
A less dramatic solution is to run a virus scanner to clean the PC. And then to run a spyware scanner. (They are similar to viruses, but are clean differently - so you have to run both).
If you do not have either, go to http://download.com and look for AVG Free and Skybot Seek&Destroy. Both are free programs. Install and run them and they should clean your PC without having to wipe it.
2007-07-13 02:49:05 · answer #3 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To clean everything properly:
Go through a couple of safe mode starts (F8 on bootup). ~
Delete all the deletable temp folders and files C:\Documents and Settings\yourname.folder\Local Settings\temp
Then defrag your disc(s). Finally (or first) scan all with anti virus (recommended 30 trial of Pandasoftware.com).
2007-07-13 02:50:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mean system restore?
More than likely not....you need to get those viruses deleted off your computer.
Get a good virus cleaner and if you cant clean them or delete them then wipe your hard drive and reinstall WINXP
hope that helps
2007-07-13 02:44:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Who told you ahve a load of viruses on your computer?
Have you got any viruses?
What are they called?
If you have some kind of trojan telling you that you have lots of viruses then you probably do not have any viruses.
2007-07-13 02:47:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Use AVG. There is a video on youtube where a guy records his friends computer being cleaned out with AVG. Funny is that the poor guy had like 1000 + virus .. LOL.
2007-07-13 02:47:35 · answer #7 · answered by WIZ!! 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
not usually. reinstalling windows is the rule of the day.
it's very hard to undo the damage that the little buggers caused even if you managed to get rid of all of them, what about the downloader it installed, or the backdoor, or the irc login bot.
no, once they've truly been infested, i just blow them away and reinstall windows.
It usally takes less time than thoroughly scrubbing the computer as well.
with the code that spammers and botherders are putting out there, you just can't trust a computer that was badly infected.
2007-07-13 02:44:11 · answer #8 · answered by tigerkitty2 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
look on your adventure supervisor, this ought to shed some mild to what's occurring. In vista you bypass to regulate panel -> Administrative equipment -> adventure viewer, examine the appliance/protection/equipment logs for extra tricks as to what is going on. ought to be you're having a hardware failure.
2016-10-01 12:42:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's what my sister did with windows 95, and it worked great. but when she did it with XP, the spyware remained. You will need to download an anti-virus program
here. this one works like a charm
http://www.trendmicro.com/download/product.asp?productid=62
2007-07-13 02:44:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋