What You Guys Do When You Find Out That...

Your computer is infected with a virus and you cant get rid of it.
What you guys do? I usually just reinstall windows and then everything else...takes like 4 hrs so its not bad

 

same thing but i have streamlined my format process

 

Since I keep all of my data stored on a seperate hard drive, using VMs to access it, if my Windows hard drive was infected, I'd reimage it.

 

Your computer is slow if it takes 4 hours..............

I usually just go in ith my trusty anti-virus utenciles and ---- that virus right outta there! MUAHAHA (All this occurs in safe mode) X)

 

Best anti-virus is to do your best not to get a virus. I havn't gotten a virus on my shiny computer, and I plan to keep it that way. But if I did I would probably try to burn off all of my important stuff, games etc and then give it the ol' reformat.

 

Why not just keep all your games and stuff and just get rid of the virus? What the hell people? Even I know this stuff.... I do know quite a bit but still... ANTI-VIRUS.... SAFE MODE.... NO REFORMAT NECISSARY!

BTW:

QUOTE: "Your computer is infected with a virus and you cant get rid of it."

You can ALWAYS get rid of a virus. There isn't one out there that you can't get rid of that I know about. Safe mode + Antivirus = Dead bugs!

 

But some of the virus out there is very persistent. They will return even after your cleared it. Maybe they are hiding deep in your hard drive...

 

Just scan in safe mode and it will remove it.

or else I just use a norton ghost image to restore my pc. (its an image of my fresh xp install)

 

there is one virius that attaches itself to scvhost.exe process.. that one is a really pain in the backside to get rid of.. its quicker if you just reformat

 

Dudes, relax, ok? a scan in safe mode will kill any and all viruses... no matter what they affect. In safe mode, most of those processes are shut down, so an AV can fix it up...

@ Perko- almost every program uses scvhost.exe, getting rid of it should be no problem...

 

i dont like to have to reformat, so i'd propably go with safe-mode + scan

 

Just isolte the file, it won't be able to startup, so its no threat

 

i first back up the important things

my cousins pc crashed when he tried to reinstall windows
everything ..gone!

So as a tip for you: back your things up
if you never reinstalled your pc before its more important

 

that's why you should have two partitions, or two drives. use the second to put important files, drivers for hardware, even software installers, so if you ever need to reinstall, you have all your files you need on that second partition/hdd

 

what about BIOS virus's?

or 6 partitions over 2 drives, like me :lol: