Anti Virus Removal with the Ultimate BootCD 4 Windows   Main Index        Tips and Tweaks        Free Virus Removal RescueME   These instructions assume you have a Windows Ultimate BootCD.   Ultimate BootCD4 Windows has several options to remove virus infections from a PC. Option 1:  Use McAfee stinger, however this is limited as it will only detect a handful of virus’s, these are the most prevalent at the time.  See http://vil.nai.com/vil/averttools.asp for list of current virus’s it will detect and move, this is updated frequently. Current AntiVir rating at Virus Bulletin http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/pro...xml?antivir.xml Option 2:  AntiVir Start up AntiVir Personal Edition First update the program: Tools or click on the two computers joined by arrows Start Internet Update Click Start If you see a box telling you the server has updates press Yes After your computer has downloaded and installed the updates another box will come up asking you if you would like to quit the program, press Yes You will now need to open AntiVir Personal Edition again, this time the program and definitions will be upto. Before we scan for virus’s you may want to change the repair settings, some virus’s replicate themselves many times on a single PC so if you leave the settings on repair with prompt you could be sitting pressing yes to deleting a virus several hundred times.  If you want to avoid that do the following. Options Configuration Repair Reported items change to Repair without prompt Not repairable items delete without prompt Click OK One word of caution this will remove virus’s without asking, if could remove something you don’t want it to or that’s not a virus by mistake. If you scan with the defaults and it's finding the same virus over and over again, it you select the options/repair box you can alter the settings to: Reported items change to Repair without prompt Not repairable items delete without prompt Now select the relevant hard-drives on your system, you should now be able to click on the magnifying glass, click on the magnifying glass and your scan will start. Once the scan is complete you will get a report window telling you how virus’s have been found and repaired/deleted. Click OK and exit the software. Current Mwav rating at Virus Bulletin http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/pro...?microworld.xml Option 3: Mwav eScan Toolkit Start Mwav eScan Toolkit This will download the latest version. If you select Scan All Files it will do just that, scan all files on the hard disk.  If you leave the default option of Program Files this will scan known program files that can contain virus’s click on the rectangle with the 3 dots to see which file extensions these are.  Scanning program files only will be quicker. By default it will scan all drives, if you wish to specify a specific folder or drive, tick the folder or Drive box and select the relevant location. Uncheck the services check box. Now click Scan Clean When you see Scan completed in the Files Scanned window, press OK ============================================================= Once you have removed the virus(‘s) from your system, reboot back into windows.  Apply any necessary critical windows updates from Microsoft.  Update your virus scanner definitions.  If you don’t have a virus scanner installed download one of the freeware one’s immediately from: AVG http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php Avast http://www.avast.com/ AntiVir Personal Edition http://www.free-av.com/ And install. Disable system restore on XP as virus’s could be hidden here. Start, control panel, performance and maintenance, system. Click the system restore tab. Tick the turn off system restore option, don’t forget to re-enable it once you have finished the following. Now run a complete scan of your system with your own anti-virus software. “But haven’t I just removed all the virus’s??” Not necessarily I’ve run virus scans on PC’s using Windows UBCD which has removed virus’s but still some have managed to remain on the PC.  It’s better to be safe and do another scan and see if anything has been left on your system and remove them. If you haven’t already done so install Ad-aware from http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ and remove any spyware on your system.  If you’ve bought spyware software on the web via a popup, you’ve probably got a very bad piece of software that might even install spyware on your system.  Probably the best spyware remover is Ad-aware another good one is spybot http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=nl&page=home which is also free. If you want any advice on Anti-virus software or security issues I’d recommend visiting http://forum.gladiator-antivirus.com/ there’s a specific section for Anti-Vir in the forum http://forum.gladiator-antivirus.com/index.php?showforum=156   Last update: 27 May 2005