Ok, so now what? help

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guys

trying to repair my inlaws pc, as usual its full of mallware, virus etc (silly young teenagers...).

anyway, ive ran full scans with AVG and MSE, pulled the hdd out and ran another scan from my pc and finished up by running two full passes of mallware bytes.

i seem to have cleared most things up except for one annoying virus, which after making a google search on the affected pc, will re-direct me to some random pron/warez site.

ive sank far too many hours into it now too give up.

any ideas on what your next step would be?

i should add, that if i had the repair disks, i would have formatted and re-installed by now, but it may be a few days before i can pick them up.

TIA
 
XP I take it? ComboFix can get nearly all nasty rootkit viruses. A full nuke and rebuild may have been a better use of time however! :)

Forgot to add: DL ComboFix from a clean PC, save it to a CD (pen drives can become infected too!) and copy it to the desktop of the infected machine and run it from there

Any pendrive that's been in there, I'd inspect with Free Commander and delete any unknown files (ESP .ink, .ini and .exe!)
 
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d_brennen said:
XP I take it? ComboFix can get nearly all nasty rootkit viruses. A full nuke and rebuild may have been a better use of time however! :)

Forgot to add: DL ComboFix from a clean PC, save it to a CD (pen drives can become infected too!) and copy it to the desktop of the infected machine and run it from there

Any pendrive that's been in there, I'd inspect with Free Commander and delete any unknown files (ESP .ink, .ini and .exe!)
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ran the app, 10 mins later all seems fine..

top man :)
 
Glad to help :) remember to check out any removable media like pendrives, camera memory cards etc. I've seen a lot of really nasty viruses targeting flash memory lately.
 
Best bet is to just format USB drives if they have been used on an infected machine.

EDIT: Oooh one other thing - get something like the free version of Macrium Reflect and create a backup image of your in-laws' PC. Obviously you will need a decent chunk of free space to store it if their OS partition is pretty big [Reflect can compress images]. That way, if their PC goes nipple-up in future, you can just spend 30 minutes restoring it from the backup image instead of several hours hunting down crapware.

You will need to make sure anything important is regularly backed up though - wouldn't want to wipe out 2 years of family pictures! :p
 
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