Questions tagged [virus-removal]
For questions on how to remove viruses and other malware from a computer—be sure to read http://superuser.com/questions/100360 before asking
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I am a victim of the Petya ransomware. Is there a solution to decrypt my disk?
My computer got encrypted by the Petya ransomware. After a long search I could not find a solution other than using file recovery software.
This helps a bit, but I am wondering if there is a way to ...
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Why does anti-virus software not delete the viruses, malware, etc., but instead quarantine them?
Why does anti-virus software not completely delete the viruses, malware, etc., but instead quarantine them? Is it not better to completely get rid of them? Why? And how can I manually remove them?
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Files names in pen drive turned into gibberish text
Recently my uncle gave me his memory card from his phone telling me something is wrong with it.When i tried to check the contents of memory card this is what i found(take a look at screenshot).
I ...
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Clean up infected computer from viruses [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What to do if my computer is infected by a virus or a malware?
I have a computer which had AVG Free installed from day one.
After several months of operation, it starts ...
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007guard: What is it, is it dangerous, and can it be removed?
Since some time, I've been running Spybot S&D and AVG AntiVirus, both completely updated to the latest versions.
During a regular check of my system, I found a huge amount of connection attempts ...
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Virus added .mbed File Extension
The files on my PC's 2 drives have been altered by a virus; all files on both drives now have an extra extension of ".mbed"
Here you have a screenshot to get my point:
So what is the shortcut way ...
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Safely opening a suspect USB Drive [duplicate]
If you have a USB Drive that may or may not be contaminated, what is the best way to retrieve data from it without reinfecting yourself?
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Cleaning windows viruses from linux
In a dual-boot system, does anyone have experience dealing with viruses that hit windows from linux? (disambiguation note: dealing with them from linux .. )
The C:\ in windows is mounted to /media/...
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Bootkit.0010 issues?
Did read this: How can I remove malicious spyware, malware, adware, viruses, trojans or rootkits from my PC?
But, computer I have is out of the box (OEM) and I've never connected it to the internet. ...
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Removing a rootkit from the MBR.. without formatting?
I have run hitman pro and found 'traces of the TDL3 Alureon' rootkit on the computer. However, running TDSSKiller would of solved this issue - but - apparently the symptoms keep coming back so I ...
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Will upgrading to windows 10 from 8.1 remove the existing virus and malware..? [duplicate]
I am using Windows 8.1 and I believe that it's been infected. I wanted to format it but I haven't backed up the files . will upgrading to windows 10 remove the virus ? Or is there any other way I can ...
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How to get logs of crashes when system wont response
I got very strange thing happening all of sudden. My windows wont let me do
right click
Cltr alt del
Click on taskbar
Let me choose a icon
Let me run antivurus
It all started one day out of no ...
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Weird redirects
We are getting a weird redirct from black-face.com (which I needed for a school assignment) to some other pages always flashing through zeroredirct1 (dot) com. On other computers, it happens for other ...
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