Virus Help - PLEASE!

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I have a virus called Win32 EvilEPL on my laptop. Yes yes I know, I should have had an antivirus, but it's too late now. definitely learnt my lesson.

Downloaded Avast coz it's the one I'm happiest with. Tried moving the infected files to the chest. However, some are not able to be moved, says the system cannot find the specified file.

Can someone, anyone, help me get rid of this thing? I Googled and it seems particularly malicious.

Please note, I will need DETAILED help, not good at this sort of thing :o
 
What you need to do is pay a professional to fix it or just reinstall with Win7 where it'll keep all of your old files safe. Don't bother trying to fix it yourself.
 
cerebus said:
What you need to do is pay a professional to fix it or just reinstall with Win7 where it'll keep all of your old files safe. Don't bother trying to fix it yourself.
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I can't afford to pay those prices at the moment.
 
Where are you located?

If in Pta, I might be able to fix it for you.

You'll have to drop it off and collect it after.

Virus removals are NOT guaranteed.

PM for pricing.
 
Zah1 said:
I have a virus called Win32 EvilEPL on my laptop. Yes yes I know, I should have had an antivirus, but it's too late now. definitely learnt my lesson.

Downloaded Avast coz it's the one I'm happiest with. Tried moving the infected files to the chest. However, some are not able to be moved, says the system cannot find the specified file.

Can someone, anyone, help me get rid of this thing? I Googled and it seems particularly malicious.

Please note, I will need DETAILED help, not good at this sort of thing :o
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You need to take the hard drive out and scan it completely in another computer that is not infected and that has an up to date scanner.

You are not able to get all the viruses, in normal mode or safe mode... because the virus is active in memory. The only way to remove it is for the virus to be not active in memory and the only way to do that is to take the hard drive out and scan it in another computer... or using a boot scan and recovery disk.
 
Do a boot scan, best option. once that's done get your windows disk and do a system repair just to make sure it doesn't bomb on you later....
 
Back up your stuff, format the disk and reinstall windows. It's the only way. You will come back here in a month and read this and look at the date where you know I told you what to do and you didn't do it and now you're thinking "Yeah, I shoulda done that what he said then". Trust me.
 
Live boot with Linux.. Under C:\windows there is a folder called system32. Delete it. Only causes trouble.
 
Garyvdh said:
You need to take the hard drive out and scan it completely in another computer that is not infected and that has an up to date scanner.

You are not able to get all the viruses, in normal mode or safe mode... because the virus is active in memory. The only way to remove it is for the virus to be not active in memory and the only way to do that is to take the hard drive out and scan it in another computer... or using a boot scan and recovery disk.
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+1 Agree , only way to be 100% sure. Once you run a full scan, place hard drive back into your laptop. Purchase Kaspersky IS 2011 -1 user (< R 300.00 Incl VAT ), boot up off dvd , do scan then install and update ..
 
Okay guys, as I said, I'm a bit doff when it comes to these things.

How exactly do I do a boot scan? Can someone give me detailed steps?

Peon, is what you suggested a boot scan?

Tia
 
Grouter said:
Back up your stuff, format the disk and reinstall windows. It's the only way. You will come back here in a month and read this and look at the date where you know I told you what to do and you didn't do it and now you're thinking "Yeah, I shoulda done that what he said then". Trust me.
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Lol, I JUST reinstalled Windows last week! So dreading doing it again, but if that's the easier option, I'll have to go with this.
 
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