Computer virus is frustrating

[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.