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[xle_camry]

Dear colleagues! I have never used antivirus in my laptop.
Yesterday, one of my friends gave me some docs in usb and my laptop caught a virus.
The problem is: when i enter to "computer", local disks are being refreshed.
Then i enter to D: disk, there also all folders are refreshing, even i dont press F5.
Same thing in desktop, if i come to desktop all window is refreshing.
And some folders in my usb become hidden. I ticked "show hidden folders", but it doesnt help too. 3-4 folders are hidden.
I can see them by winrar, but in other normal way i cant see that folders.
What the problem is? Could you help me? May be i can repair it from regedit? How?
Thanks too much, waiting for your help.
Thanks in advance!

[WingedPanther]

You'll probably need to boot into safe mode, as a start, and then use a standalone anti-virus to scan your system, like clamwin-av

[Alexander]

Trend micro has an online malware/virus scanner (named Housecall) which requires no standalone application, there are various other powerful malware solutions such as Malwarebytes which when combined with an antivirus should get rid of a majority of those things.

Just note the odd virus tends to knock your system out with it, so try to back up important data.

[mr mike]

Do you know the virus you caught?

Here is a rundown of your choices:
A. Manually:
1. ctrl alt delete -> stop the virus (if your not sure google the services running)
2. search and delete the file
3. goto reg and backup
4. delete all instances
5. reboot and check
6. delete the reg backup you have
7. create a new reg backup for future use

B. Manually 2:
1. Reinstall Windows or install linux(Ubuntu for user ease)

B. Alexanders suggestion: Using malware bytes free(download from another computer and install on flash drive or just change the name of the ect.exe file to anything.exe)
1. install malware bytes
2. run scan
3. reboot
4. rescan
5. keep or uninstall

C. Install ClamAv as WingedPanther suggested so you can scan your files before installing(just be patient with the scanning process as it tends to be slow, but is very resource friendly and the scanner is good)

[arp_traffic]

Yeah, in your shoes not knowing, the first thing I would do is reboot to a previous saved point(if you have any) go back to a date when you know the virus wasn't there. THEN get yourself an anti virus program!

[Upstream]

After doing all mentiod before and the virus is not detected somehow and you still do not want to reinstall then you could examine the usb stick that contains the virus. You need to know what you'r doing or it could happen again.

Somehow you need to access the content without triggering the virus. I think a trigger for the virus can be an auto-, run-, install function executed by windows when the usb stick is connected to a port. I am not an expert on this but it is an idea to considder if all fails?

[THX]

re install

[RhetoricalRuvim]

WingedPanther said:

You'll probably need to boot into safe mode, as a start, and then use a standalone anti-virus to scan your system, like clamwin-av

Is a standalone program a program that does not have to be installed, nor has to import any DLLs? Like a 'hello world' program would be standalone?

Alexander said:

Trend micro has an online malware/virus scanner (named Housecall) which requires no standalone application, there are various other powerful malware solutions such as Malwarebytes which when combined with an antivirus should get rid of a majority of those things.

Just note the odd virus tends to knock your system out with it, so try to back up important data.

What's an odd virus?

mr mike said:

...
B. Manually 2:
1. Reinstall Windows or install linux(Ubuntu for user ease)
...

As for installing Linux, Ubuntu is a nice Linux operating system. You can even install WinE (Windows Emulator) on it.
You can install Linux along-side the Windows operating system, and then you can access the files from the Windows partition - so you can back them up or something - by going to the 'Places' menu and clicking on '171 GB Filesystem' (or whatever the hard disk is called).

[WingedPanther]

@Rehtorical: Clam-AV portable requires no installation.

[StarDrago]

try Dr. Web Cureit