Computer virus is frustrating

[bvilchez]

Would that get rid of the virus or can it transfer over to the new OS?
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[bobarian]

Jay, IMHO this is a redirect trojan not a true virus. Very pesky, I used goored and combofix to finally get rid of this nasty bid of malware. You can use your laptop to download to a thumb drive and install from their.

[RGD.]

Originally Posted by bvilchez

Would that get rid of the virus or can it transfer over to the new OS?
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To answer your question - Yes it can and will on an upgrade. I have successfully cleaned these types of infections but it is very time consuming and frustrating.

The best bet is to simply get another hard drive to replace your current one. Use your old one as a slave and carefully extract the data that you need.

After you install your new OS make sure you install good anti-virus and malware programs. Use two different ones and make sure that one of them is Malwarebytes.

Good luck -

Ron

[dyieldin]

I have had issues like that and I have fixed other peoples computers with Norton 360. Boot on the CD and let it do its thing. Best investment you can make.

[Apoco]

Originally Posted by RGD.

To answer your question - Yes it can and will on an upgrade. I have successfully cleaned these types of infections but it is very time consuming and frustrating.

The best bet is to simply get another hard drive to replace your current one. Use your old one as a slave and carefully extract the data that you need.

After you install your new OS make sure you install good anti-virus and malware programs. Use two different ones and make sure that one of them is Malwarebytes.

Good luck -

Ron

How effective would using a program like KillDisk be? It overwrites with all 1s, then all 0s. Should wipe out every single thing on the hard drive.