nithin kurian asks:
I want to know whether there is any way to recover the operating system which is affected by virus. I mean which antivirus I have to select for the virus affected operating system? Nowadays my laptop takes more time for booting. Most of the software does not respond.
I am using Windows 7 Home Premium. Please give me any solution for these problems.
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Tagged: antivirus, best software, malware, windows 7, windows issue
System: Windows
Tagged: antivirus, best software, malware, windows 7, windows issue
12 Answers -
Bruce Epper
May 29, 2012You can get Microsoft Safety Scanner from here http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx
You can also get the Kaspersky rescue disk from here http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/rescuedisk
There is also Hiren’s Boot CD that you can get here http://www.hirensbootcd.org/files/Hirens.BootCD.15.1.zip
Hiren’s is probably the best option since you can use it to scan with Avira Antivirus, Malwarebytes, Spybot Search & Destroy, and SUPERAntispyware. Run scans at least with Avira until it comes up clean then at least one of the others until it comes up clean as well. The advantage of using Hiren’s or the Kaspersky disk is that they need to be written to a bootable device CD/DVD or USB stick and you boot into a clean environment instead of trying to run the scans on a system that may have active malware on it which can hide from the scans or make it more difficult to remove. I haven’t tried Microsoft’s solution, but I would assume that it will want to create a bootable disk as well.
Whichever one you decide to use, you will want to download the program and burn the disc from a known clean computer (friend, neighbor, library, etc.)
nice suggestions
May 30, 2012Saikat Basu
May 29, 2012Several free anti-malware companies have recovery disc images that you can download, write on to a bootable CD on another computer, and use to bootscan and recover your own system. Check out these tools:
AVG Rescue Disk [http://go.ask-leo.com/avgrescue]
Avira Rescue System [http://go.ask-leo.com/avirarescue]
Kaspersky Rescue Disk [http://go.ask-leo.com/kaspdisc]
Kyem Ghosh
May 29, 2012avast too is a good one….
ha14
May 29, 2012try SARDU
http://www.sarducd.it/
SARDU create one multiboot support USB or a multiboot disc CD or DVD for free
boot on it and scan pc
Alan Wade
May 29, 2012Of course there is the Microsoft Security Essentials that is rated quite well.
Oron
May 29, 2012In addition, you could use Malwarebytes Anti Malware Free.
DalSan Mack
May 29, 2012I second the Malwarebytes AntiMalware as it will get most if not all malware from your system, Avira Antivir does very well with virus removal, though it can throw out a bunch of false positives, Combo Fix works well to get the system back working, on of the slowest but most thorough scanner would be ClamWin. SuperAntiSpyware works well for spyware removal. Microsoft Security Essentials works well, but not as well as the others. It is rated higher for speedy scans and for its little use of resources and ease to use with simple integration with Windows. I use multiple programs when there is a malware/virus problem, but my main security suite I use is Comodo Internet Security since I find Comodo’s firewall to work extremely well.
If any of the suggested programs do not find any positive results, then you should use programs such as CCleaner, Glary Utilities, IOBit Advanced SystemCare with GameBooster, etc. to see if that will help with performance. Check the startup programs to see if there are any programs that you don’t need running or starting when Windows starts such as Adobe ARM, tinkbell.exe, etc. through either CCleaner or running msconfig.msc (press the Windows button and R to get the run command and type msconfig.msc) as this greatly slows down the start of Windows. There are many services that can also bog down the computer if you don’t need them running. http://tweakhound.com/windows7/tweaking/ shows you how to get better performance without ruining your user experience. If you are not that brave, then you can use either Tweaking.com Simple Performance Boost or Advanced System Tweaker to do similar actions in a safer and easier way that can be easily reversed. Using defragging software like MyDefrag or Smart Defrag to optimize your hard drive will speed up loading times, as well as making sure you have more than 15% free space on your hard drive. Also, using PCDecrapifier or Revo Uninstaller to get rid of unwanted or unnecessary programs, especially if you haven’t or don’t plan on using them, will help performance some. Using either an SD card or flash drive for ReadyBoost will help out performance as well. It will be used not really in place of, but more so, than the paging file/virtual memory. Using FAT32 format will only allow up to 4 GB, but formatting to NTFS will allow more, I think up to 256GB. The bigger, but very risky, performance boost you can do would be to use RAMDisk, which uses part of your system memory for disk space. I would highly recommend you not do this unless you have at least 8GB of ram installed in your system, but some have done well with only 4 GB of RAM.
What I did was use all of these tweaks and programs to get my netbook working up to usable speed, along with disabling the Security Center service. I do not recommend doing this unless you know what you are doing to keep viruses and malware out of your computer. Disabling that alone sped my netbook up quite a bit. If you would like more info about any of these, let me know and I can give you links to them.
P.S. I would get a flash drive and put on several portable antimalware/antivirus software, Malwarebytes AntiMalware installer (they do not make portable products, but sometimes you cannot use the internet to download software if infected), and cleaners like Glary Utilities or CCleaner and Argente Registry Cleaner, etc. to ensure that you have access to a working copy of the programs to help clean up what may be left behind from malware. There are thousands of other useful programs that you can use from your flash drive at PortableApps.com or LupoPensuite.com.
May 29, 2012FIDELIS
May 29, 2012Hello, in order for you to clean any malware/virus in your computer, I would recommend the following software. Make sure to select free version:
Superantispyware portable: you do not need to update, new signatures already included:
http://www.superantispyware.com/portablescanner.html?tag=SAS_HOMEPAGE
Malwarebytes: you need to install and update program with new signatures
http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free
With regards to antivirus software there plenty of good ones available. You have already been given some good options.
If for some reason you can not download or execute the programs you might need something to stop virus/malware from stopping antimalware/antivirus software from running. For that, I recommend you to download a free software called RKill. What this software does when it is running, is stopping the virus/malware from running. Once malware/virus is sleep you can run any cleaning software without any problems until next restart. I would recommend for you to download the iExplore.exe version. If that one does not work, try the one with the .com extension. Here is the link:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/rkill/
You can start by downloading or copying rkill software to your desktop and run it from there. Try doing it in normal mode, if it does not work, try running it in safemode wit networking.
Run rkill first and let it run until it tells you that processes are stopped. Once that happens run a full scan with the portable version of superantispyware. All you have to do, is click on .exe or .com extension for it to run. If there is/are any malware/virus entries, make sure to clean them all. Then install and update malwarebytes and run a full scan. Make sure to get rid of any entries found. Once both program have been run, make sure to run a full scan with your antivirus of choice.
Make sure to restart your computer when all the scans are finished and then just to make sure, run a full scan again with all the software above. It is comes clean, make sure to delete all restore points. After doing these steps, your system should be cleaned. If it is not, let us know….there are other things you could try.
Mike DeGeorge
May 30, 2012There’s a couple. Malwarebyte is a good one for on demand scanning. You can also use Avast(but it’s not on demand scanning, even though it does include that). Avast also includes a feature called ‘boot time scan’ which scans your system before Windows boots up, which means no malware can try to hide itself since it is not running.
Jon Smith
May 31, 2012Malwarebytes Anti Malware
Kasperky Live CD Recovery if Im seriously screwed
allan jay monteclaro
May 31, 2012There are a plethora of great software that can help you out with that as suggested by the guys here. What I can suggest is to boot your PC on safe mode first to make sure that unnecessary processes are not running at this sometimes slows down the scanning process. Also, it will keep the malware from running while you’re doing the scan.
Evas
June 1, 2012If all else fail,reinstall Windows or wipe your hard disk and install other OS