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By *usssylicker OP Man
over a year ago

horsforth leeds yorks

Hi guys and gals, anyone out there with the knowledge on how to rid my friends pc of a virus, she says when she turns the pc on all that comes up is the virus, any help would be most appreciated , thanks

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

Has she tried to open up in safe mode then restore it to a date where it did not have the virus on there.

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By *adyA01Woman
over a year ago

Wellington

Reboot and as rebooting press F9 coninuosly until it brings us the dos screen select start in safemode, then dowmload malwarebytes or anvisoft defender and run a full scan!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

As soon as you turn it on tap F8 repeatedly on the keyboard. Another screen should come up continue to tap the F8 button until you see 'repair computer' option Once you have selected that option there should be 5 options on screen. Select the option 'system response.' You can then select a time the last time you downloaded something on the computer. Select a time when you didn't have the virus and hey presto it should be gone.

I hope I have made myself clear lol

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By *usssylicker OP Man
over a year ago

horsforth leeds yorks

thanks for all the messages , I will get in touch with her

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Doing a system restore will not get rid of the virus, it will simply return the PC back to an earlier state without removing any files etc. The virus will remain onboard.

As previous poster said get to boot option screen and go to safe mode and scan with anti virus.

Depending the the ferocity of the virus it may of infected your registry as well so make sure you use a decent anti virus and try and back up as much of your personal files as possible.

If all else fails last resort is a complete clean install of your operating system ( formatting the hard drive in process )

Hope that helps and feel free to message me if you need any other help

Jamie

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

Well it got rid of the virus I had.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Well it got rid of the virus I had.....

It will work with some of the lesser ones ( trojans , worms and malware )

But as the OP's one is coming up as soon as she turns on it sounds pretty bad so probably deeply embedded

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Well it got rid of the virus I had.....

some time it work sometime is does not.

Me before i do a restore i do this. F8 into safe mode with network. Download and install this. Then let it up date and runa full scan.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

It is free and does work well.

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By *adyA01Woman
over a year ago

Wellington

Just an update I had a similar virus, malwarebytes stopped it for a while but it came back, turns out it weas bedded into the root registry and malwarebytes doesn't scan the root registry! So I downloaded anvisoft and it scans the root registry again it is free and it got rid of my virus! Good luck! I am no IT expert but have worked in the industry, I was lucky enough to have people at my disposal to ask the right questions

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you know the name of the virus then try Google as I have found one great solutions using that method previously

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