Craig Knows Things

You’ll need;

• Spybot Search & Destroy
• Ad-Aware
• Hijackthis
• AVG Free Edition

What to do:

• Turn off Startup Items, restart computer
• Install then run HijackThis, restart computer
• Run Spybot- Fix Problems, Run Ad-Aware- Fix Problems, Run AVG scan- Fix Problems
• Restart computer, run HijackThis again
• Evaluate problems, take additional action.

First
On your computer click start and then click run (Win+R). If you can’t get to the run command from the start menu you can press the windows key plus r.

In the run command type, “msconfig“.

Next choose startup. Then choose to disable all.

This will uncheck all programs that are set to automatically start when the computer turns on. After fixing your computer you can go back into msconfig and reselect the programs you’d like to start when the computer starts such as aim.

Step two
Once your computer has been restarted and is running again it’s time to install the programs listed at the top of this page.

First install HijackThis. Run HijackThis and select all the startup programs that seem shady. Restart the computer.

After restarting the computer install Spybot Search & Destroy. The installer is pretty self explanatory. It’ll ask you to;

1. Make a backup, do it.
2. Download updates, do that.
3. To immunize your system, do that.

Once it’s installed run a scan, fix the problems.

Now for AdAware. Once installed run a scan and choose to fix the problems.

After AdAware is installed install AVG Free Edition run a scan and fix those problems.

Lastly, I’d run HijackThis again, check the boxes next everything I’d like to get rid of, then restart.

Our last step is to evaluate our efforts and figure out what it is we haven’t been able to remove. A particular pesky virus I come across quite often is the trojan / virus vundo.

1. Download combofix from any of these links and save it to Desktop:
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3

**You’re going to need to save and run the file from the desktop**

2. Double click combofix.exe & follow the prompts.

*Attention*
Do not click combofix’s window while it’s running. That can cause it to freeze.

Combofix shouldn’t take more then 20 minutes to run.
If it does, (press ctrl, alt and del at the same time) this will opeb the Task Manager click the processes tab and end the processes that are findstr, find, sed or swreg, that should cause combofix continue.

If you have problems with Combofix visit how-to-use-combofix