If I put in a new hard drive will it get rid of the trojan horse virus.?

Answer 1

Out of all those answers, only one man knows what hes talking about. Take giginotg... 's advice. That's d best course of action.

Answer 2

Why not simply install a proper security suite from a reliable vendor and use their instructions to manually remove any part of whatever trojan you have if it requires more than the suite?

Putting a new harddrive into your computer will do absolutely nothing in the long run if you do not invest in a proper security suite and use a bit of common sense with it.

If you are planning on removing the infected harddrive and tossing it into the wastebin then you certainly would be removing all data including any malware... is that really something you had to ask?

If you are planning on putting in a new harddrive as a secondary harddrive then obviously any malware on the one drive will have access to the other.

I would suggest you also invest in a reliable and qualified technician who can sort this out for you. You clearly have money you wish to throw away so you may as well throw it away on something that will be of more use to you.

Good Luck

Answer 3

If you format the new drive, it will be blank. In other words, you will loose anything you have on the old drive.

You can often get rid of these virus other ways though.

First I'd go to www.pandasoftware.com and do their free anti-virus scan.

It may remove it for you.

If that doesn't work, I'd try House Call by trend micro. They have a free service too.

http://housecall.trendmicro.com

If either of these give you the name of the trojan but don't remove it, you can search with google or yahoo.

Put the name of the trojan in and hit enter.

Chances are good that you will find a removal tool out there.

Good luck.

After you remove it, I'd install a good anti-virus program

A good free one is by Grisoft.

http://free.grisoft.com

Good luck.

Answer 4

It depends on how you put in that new hard drive. If you merely add it into your system. No way to do anything. Trojan is still there.

You need to replace the old one completely and then reinstall the OS.

Anyway, you need to install a proper internet security suite to protect your "new" machine.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

yes, there will be no virus on it. But you can also remove it by formatting the present hard drive and reinstalling windows
http://mypchelp.blogspot.com/2006/10/windows-reinstallation.html

Answer 7

yes.
after you do.. to keep the old one from going to waste run this eraser through it to make sure you delete the virus so you can safely use it again.. (it's better than formatting it or installing windows again) ..if you format.. it's the same as deleting and if you delete something it's still there, just moved to the back waiting to be overwritten.. eraser overwrites it then and there so it's gone.

http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/

Answer 8

If you replace the hard drive with a new one, then yes because it will be basically a fresh start.

http://www.techslip.com

Answer 9

if u make new partitations then you can get rid of it

good luck