Is your machine under attack from viruses?

In most cases a good anti-virus tool will detect 99% of all viruses in circulation, but every now and then, a brand new virus will slip through undetected, infect thousands of new computers, only for the anti-virus companies to play catch up.

Virus Removal Buderim

Such a case of a brand new virus hit one of our clients even after a new version of anti-virus was installed a month prior. A trojan horse had infected two of the core main operating Windows 7 files and the anti-virus detected them on open but slowed the netbook down to a grinding halt.

The only way to fix such issues is by booting a linux rescue disc (look for AVG rescue CD), use midnight command to browser your NTFS/FAT based partition, delete the infected Windows 7 .exe's. Once you've done that, boot with the Windows 7 installation disc, select 'Repair options', select the option which says restore from a previous system point, press cancel, which should then give you access to the command line option.

Then type sfc /scannow /offbootdir=c:\ /offwindir=c:\windows

This command will scan for missing/corrupted Windows 7 install files, and replace them with fresh new ones from the install disk. The virus will obviously have been removed, allowing you to reboot your operating system, and then performing a full scan for any other potential threats.

So if you need help removing viruses, spyware or malware from Windows give our Computer Repairs Geek a visit at www.buzzageek.com.au.