Braimee’s Craptastic Malware Removal Guide
In my job, I clean malware from PCs almost every day. I started creating a guide so that I could tackle infections the same way every time. So far I’ve found these steps to be consistently successful in removing icky stuff from your XP or Vista-based PC.
This article assumes you have some technical PC experience, and therefore doesn’t go into the how of executing these steps. But if you need help, just shoot me an email or leave a comment on this post and I’ll get back to you asap.
- Disable System Restore.
- Download and run CCleaner.
- Reboot into Safe Mode.
- Download Malware Bytes, install it, update it, do a full scan.
- Allow the program to remove any infections it finds.
- Reboot into normal mode to let Malware Bytes finish removing infections.
- Run HijackThis, then copy/paste the log file into the HijackThis.de site for analyzation of any remaining startup items, etc. that may need to be removed.
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