Sir, since last three days my computer has been affected with Rahul’s virus. I do not know the effect of this virus but causing mental agony. I found lot of solutions in net. All solutions are lengthy and some are misleading. I request any one who can help me to remove this virus from my computer.
Thanks a lot
Jambulingam alias sengailingam
Hi, welcome to the forum.
What antivirus program do you use?
What is your operating system and service pack level?
Do you know how to locate hidden folders?
Do you know how to use regedit?
Unless you want spam, please remove the email link.
Thank you.
Now I have removed the ID.
I am using avast
I have very little knowledge on regedit
jambulingam alias sengailingam
I’m not a malware removal expert, so try this if you want. It is what I would try, and is based on instructions found here
1)-Make sure no flash drives are plugged in. That’s probably how you got this, and you should consider any flash drives you have used as infected. (We’ll deal with that, later.)
2)-Open your control panel, select folder options, select the “view” tab, and set it to view hidden files. Not far below that, set it not to hide files with a known file extension, (“Hide extensions for known file types”) and to show protected system files.
(You might need to view these files in order to delete the ones that are a problem.)
3)-Open taskmanager, by pushing the three keys “Ctrl Alt Del” together. Under the “Processes” tab, locate an entry called “wscript.exe”, right-click it, and select “end process”. (Let me know if it was there, and if you were able to delete it.)
4)-Open an explorer (not Internet explorer) window, by double clicking the “my computer” icon. Navigate to the folder “C:\WINDOWS\system32” and search for “VirusRemoval.vbs” (or maybe “VirusRemoval.vbe”) Once found, right-click each entry and select “delete”.
5)-Check in taskmanager to see if the process “wscript.exe” has returned. If so, stop it again. (Let me know if it did return. If so, you’ll need to use the registry editor.)
6)-Open a browser, go to www.malwarebytes.org and download the free version of the MBAM scanner. (The blue download button.) Save it to your desktop.
7)-Run the installer by double-clicking the downloaded file. Once the program has installed, update it, and run a quick scan. Once the scan is complete, select anything found, and then push the button “remove selected”. If you are prompted to restart, do so promptly.Please post the scan report in your answer.
If the above looks a bit complicated, just do points 6 and 7.
-Go to OldMacDonald and about halfway down the page is a blue entry: [DOWNLOAD AUTORUN EATER v2.5], click it; you will be redirected to the hosting site (filefront) and you should download it from there and save it to your desktop.
-Install AutorunEater by double clicking the file you just downloaded. This program will set an icon that looks like an orange AE in the system tray. When active, it should detect and offer to remove any autorun.inf files that may exist on your computer, and on any flash drives that are plugged into it.
Hope this helps.