PC is infected, tips please?

[inogen]

You can do it with malware bytes.

Really it depends on what you're doing with it. If you're a super secret international spy then by all means, reformat and reinstall. In fact stop using Windows you idiot.

Otherwise, just do what other lazy people do and get on malware bytes, go on the forum, post your reports and declare yourself clean like the dirty, scabby, crab ridden porn addict you are.

Then get paranoid and reformat and reinstall.

But yeah, reset your passwords asap on an uninfected machine. But first wash your hands.

 

[Hotwired]

Only backups can be relied on if you end up getting malware on a system with admin rights enabled.

Apart from anything else you can never be 100% sure what it actually did, it could have a blatantly obvious malicious payload which can be seen a mile off but also scramble thousands of system settings which may never be fully corrected and cause eternal grief.

On that note...

Kicking out half a dozen old system images and doing a new backup as I speak


However if repairing is important... I find it useful to use a second operating system to try and repair the first one for the main reason that the first one might be too compromised for the usual tools to work.

So I'd switch off, boot from the backup operating system and then look to repair from there.

 

[Edward78]

Sorry couldn't resist, do you have a Linux LiveDVD/USB, if you know where there bad files are just delete or scan them from the DvD/USB...