Vista - How to remove virus from the computer?

Hi Everyone! five days before my PC got affected by virus and now it is not working in a stable way and my whole work is dependent on the system. I do not understand so as what to do? Please help me and give your suggestions on how to remove the virus from the PC? Any help is appreciated.

You don't say whether you are using an Anti-virus, or not!
Either install Avast from link below, or use your AV to remove virus.
Do a Scan in Safe mode with Anti-virus, and Spybot search & destroy.
Info on entring Safe Mode below
Do a scan with one application at a time!

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

Avast Anti-Virus is Vista compatible (32bit and 64bit Versions), FREE,
auto-updating, and a low resources user of your computer.
And, only have 1(one) Anti-Virus installed / running on your computer at any
one time..
Conflicts may occur if you have more than 1(one).

http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html

Spybot Search & Destroy 1.6 is a very good, FREE Anti-Spyware Program.
Download, install, update, and immunize your System with it.
Then SCAN with it.
Update it, and scan your System once a fortnight.

Important re: Safe Mode
If you happen to find a problem that you can’t uninstall / delete, reboot
the computer, and go into Safe Mode.
To get into Safe mode, tap F8 right at Power On / Startup, and use UP arrow
key to get to Safe Mode from list of options, then hit ENTER.
RESCAN your computer with Avast9or your AV) and Spybot S & D while in Safe
Mode.

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Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia


"werrockjones" wrote:

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Use of on-line scans

Depending upon only one anti-virus program or one anti-spyware program is
insufficient these days. No one program will detect everything. Some will
detect an infection but not remove said infection. Conversely, some
malware/virus' are detected/removed by almost all of these type of programs.

You can use some, or all, of these on-line scans to supplement your resident
programs when you find they are not up to the task in detecting/removing
your computer infection:

The links below will take you to FREE antivirus and anti malware "on-line"
scans offered by the below organizations.

www.eset.com/onlinescan/

www.eset.eu/online-scanner

http://www.onecare.live.com/site/en-...cid=mscom_msrt

http://www.microsoft.com/security/ma...e/default.mspx

http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeuse...s/activescan/?

www.spywareinfo.com/xscan.php

www.kaspersky.com/kos/english/kavwebscan.html

www.spywareguide.com/onlinescan.php

www.housecall.trendmicro.com/

www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html

www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner

http://www.ca.com/us/securityadvisor...info/scan.aspx

http://www.us.mcafee.com/root/runapp...n.asp?appid=73

http://www.download.zonelabs.com/bin...cm/index4.html
www.prevx.com/freescan.asp

www.support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols.shtml

www.windowsecurity.com/trojanscan/

www.onlinescan.avast.com/

You may also consider using any of the below programs, or a combination
thereof, to further protect and cleanse your computer:

Spybot Search & Destroy: http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html

Ad-Aware Free: http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

ThreatFire: http://www.threatfire.com/about/

BOClean: http://www.comodo.com/boclean/boclean.html

MalwareBytes Anti Malware: http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

WinPatrol: http://www.winpatrol.com/download.html

I consider a good firewall essential to safe computing. If you are behind a
router that has NAT implemented you are already partially protected. In
fact, you may need nothing else. But, for that extra ounce of protection
(argued excessively by many) you may want to consider the below FREE
products.

VistaFirewallControl: http://www.sphinx-soft.com/Vista/ (NOTE: paid and free
versions) This is a friendly user interface for the built-in firewall that
is part of Windows Vista. It allows you to control both incoming and
outgoing network communication/connections.

COMODO Firewall Pro: http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/ (for Windows XP
and Windows Vista)

PC Tools Firewall Plus: http://www.pctools.com/firewall/ (designed for
Windows Vista)

ZoneAlarm FREE Firewall:
http://www.zonealarm.com/store/conte...e_firewall.jsp

Note that you may have to boot up into safe mode to totally remove many
infections.

After you have removed everything, protect your computer with quality
antivirus and anti-malware resident programs, either free or purchased.

Regards,
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience



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Windows Desktop Experience



"werrockjones" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 00:32:23 -0500, werrockjones wrote:
Web-based On-line scanners are the most unsafe and next to useless. Because
by the time you've started your infected Windows and connected to the
Internet via this infected code base, and start to look for scanning sites
through infected DNS, you are almost certain to have the malware
perfectly positioned to overrule your attempts to clean it.
What happens if active malware is found? Don't expect that the on-line
scanner will do anything about it. Most of them are just just marketing
tools for selling you their products.

David H. Lipman's Multi-AV is *better and safer*, because you don't have to
be on-line to use it (it has no dependencies on using a web browser to
perform its function), and it can be used in Safe Mode.

Download David's MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL:
http://www.pctipp.ch/ds/28400/28470/Multi_AV.exe
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
English:
http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/...irus-for-free/
When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more
comprehensive PDF help file.
Additional Instructions:
http://pcdid.com/Multi_AV.htm

Other quality Standalone Malware Scanners are:
Kaspersky® AVPTool
http://avptool.virusinfo.info/en/
http://downloads5.kaspersky-labs.com/devbuilds/AVPTool/
and
Dr.Web CureIt!® Utility - FREE
http://www.freedrweb.com/cureit/
and
Malwarebytes© Corporation - Anti-Malware
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam/program/mbam-setup.exe

After the software is updated, it is suggested scanning the system in Safe
Mode.
How do you boot to Safe Mode?
By pressing/tabbing F8 (or F5 on some keyboards) during re-boot.
Alternatively:
click onto Start==>Run, type "msconfig" (without quotation marks), click
OK. Then click onto BOOT.INI tab and 'check' /SAFEBOOT then OK and click
Restart. To go back to Normal Mode, you must access the System
Configuration utility again and click the General tab then click/check the
radio button 'Normal Startup'- load all device drivers and services'.
A description of the Safe Mode Boot options in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=315222

It's safer still if you can avoid running any code from the infected system
at all, and that can be done by working from Bart CDR boot.
But that means having a clean system to build the Bart disk, and more to
the point, a fair bit of effort and technical fiddling.

Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

And listen what the real experts have to say about 3rd party software
firewalls (PFW):

On August 07, 2007, the software engineers/programmers of Sunbelt Software
(the makers of Sunbelt Personal Firewall) have raised reservations about
the usefulness of outbound protection provided by personal firewalls (PFW)
in cases where malware has already executed and describe it as a
questionable basis on which to build a *security* assessment.

Furthermore, during a interview with Leo Laporte (August 16, 2007), Steve
Gibson, of Gibson Research Corporation said that he has given up updating
his *'Firewall Leak Test'* application because he found it essentially
worthless to continue and admitted a software-based firewall (PFW) is kind
of pointless to employ.

And, a rational appraisal by Steve Riley concerning *security* related 3rd
party software applications (August 06, 2008).

[quote]
In general, it's a bad idea to use third-party "replacements" for critical
parts of the operating system. While I'll never claim that our software is
bug-free, I feel pretty certain that some shady no-charge download that
tries to replace or improve on some aspect of the security subsystem hasn't
gone through any kind of testing like we do: the SDL, automated fuzz and
penetration testing, and threat modeling. My advice: stay away from stuff
like this.
[unquote]

Steve Riley [MSFT Senior Security Strategist]
steve.riley@xxxxxx
http://blogs.technet.com/steriley
http://www.protectyourwindowsnetwork.com

Also in TechNet Magazine (June 2008).
Jesper M. Johansson
Senior Security Strategist in the Security Technology Unit at MSFT.
Managing the Windows Vista Firewall
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/m.../cc510323.aspx

[quote]
....outbound filtering will stop the worm from infecting other systems or
will stop the attacker from communicating out. This is *not* true.
[unquote]

Good luck

On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 00:32:23 -0500, werrockjones
<guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote:

Please help us to help you. What virus is it? How do you know it's
infected? What anti-virus software do you run? Is it up to date? What
has the software done about the virus?

Bear in mind that removing the virus is not always possible. A virus
is not necessarily just an annoyance that causes you problems until
you remove it. It often can cause permanent irrevocable damage to your
system; that's why it's so important to *prevent* getting infected in
the first place.

In many cases, the only good solution is to reformat the drive,
reinstall Windows cleanly, and reload your data from your backups
(since you say "my whole work is dependent on the system," I assume
you have in place a procedure of regularly backing up at least your
data).

Whether you need to start from scratch and reinstall cleanly, I don't
know. Answer the questions in the first paragraph above first.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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