The secret of Delete Viruses Without Anti-virus
Waiting for your anti-virus programs to scan and delete viruses is quite boring, moreover, if the result is naught. Actually, there is a good solution to remove viruses from your computer without anti-virus software, that is by command prompt.
Requirements
This isn’t require specific skills to do, just a little knowledge of command prompt syntax. Furthermore, knowing where is the viruses placed along with the label or name of viruses will much help you to solve this problem.
How to do?
For this simulation, the virus is situated on the drive E (E:\virus) named “new folder.vbs”. Below are 5 points that you need do in order to get rid virus without anti-virus software.
- Make a back-up
Your data safety is above all else, so create a back up will much help you when something goes wrong. You can save files on external drive or on another partition that considered safe aside drive C: wherein Windows is stored.
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After all your data have been saved, you can begin to remove viruses manually by command prompt. Run the command prompt by clicking on Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\Command Prompt. Or through Run, click on Start Menu\Run (Windows + R) and type “CMD” without quote.
For this demo, virus is situated on drive E (E:\virus). From command prompt, go to the directory where the virus is residing by typing “cd e:\virus”. In many case, viruses commonly situated on the Windows temporary folder or on the Windows system32 folder.
Note : if you want to access drive C: or Windows folder by typing C: in command prompt, you’ll redirected to c:\documents and settings\… And for go to drive C you need type “cd C:\” with no quote.
Removing viruses will be much easy if the viruses are visible. And in order to make viruses visible you should remove the virus attributes, the attributes are archive, hidden read only as well as system file. For this demo, virus is hidden, so you need type “attrib -r -a -s -h new folder.vbs” with no quote.
After the virus on drive E was found, now it’s a right time for you to remove virus from your computers once and forever. For delete the virus by command prompt type “del new folder.vbs” with no qoute. In many case, the file extension for viruses are numerous, but typically viruses use .vbs or .exe, so make sure you’re type the virus extension correctly.
In order to get a good result, doing all steps above in safe mode because in safe mode most viruses doesn’t work. Just a few windows component is enabled to run in safe mode.
