Short of getting a new harddrive.
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How can I completely clean my PC of all virus and mal/adware and other malicious programs?
November 21, 2009
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Clean Registry and Optimize PC
Get a mac!!!
There are plenty of free antiviruses.
http://www.malwarebytes.org
http://free.avg.com
If you DO want to wipe your hard drive, you probably won’t have to pay.
You can perform a System Recovery on many computers. This will return your hard drive to the ORIGINAL factory configuration, with everything it originally had. First, let’s find out if your computer supports it.
SKIP THIS STEP IF YOU CANNOT LOAD WINDOWS.
Go to My Computer, and look under Hard Disk Drives. A lot of PC’s today will include two hard disk partitions. There is always a C:\ drive (normally the Windows drive) and often a D:\ drive. The D:\ drive may be called "Recovery" or something like it.
If there is no D:\ drive, you may have to do System Recovery from a disk.
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! SYSTEM RECOVERY DELETES *ALL* FILES YOU HAVE CREATED. It restores the hard drive to the original, STRAIGHT FROM THE FACTORY. This means that all files you have created are DELETED! My Documents? GONE! My Pictures? GONE! Installed Programs? GONE! You MUST backup anything you want to keep on a USB drive or memory card!!!
Now to perform System Recovery. Restart your PC. As Windows is loading, look for a message that says "Press [KEY] for System Recovery". When you see this message, press the given key and follow the instructions, and hopefully you will be able to perform a successful System Recovery.
Put in your operating system disc and reformat your hard drive. Warning: This will delete all your files and folders!
Reformat kyal!
I don’t know why you want to get another hard drive because of viruses unless they have completely destroyed your OS.Run your security and remove them.If you don’t have any,here are some suggestions:
Anti-virus:
1.avast! Home Edition 4.8
2 Avira AntiVir Personal 9
3 AVG 8.5
4, Threatfire
5 Panda Cloud Anti-virus
(use only one.If you go with AVG,use Threatfire too)
Anti-spyware:
1. Ad-Aware
2 a-squared
3 Malwarebytes-Antimalware
4 COMODO BOClean
5 SUPERAntiSpyware
6 Windows Defender
7 Spybot Search and Destroy
8 Spyware Blaster
9 Spyware Terminator
(use 2,3,or even 4)
Firewall:
1 Windows Vista
2 COMODO Pro
3 ZoneAlarm
4 Online Armor
(use only one)
Also Download CCleaner (disk/registry cleaner/optimizer)
SmartDefrag
available free for personal use at:
CNET http://www.downloads.com
Major Geeks http://www.majorgeeks.com
FileHippo http://www.filehippo.com
Softpedia http://softpedia.com