Common virus removal strategies (xclusive post)

I receive a good number of phone calls everyday asking for virus removal strategies .The very first thing they ask me "should i format and reinstall os?".I recommend never do that.Don't panic ,stay calm ,every virus with proper monitoring can be removed and most importantly NEVER FORMAT AND REINSTALL OS for the sake of removing virus .

Here I present you with most common viruses removal techniques :

1.SOHANAD ( NEWFOLDER.exe,Autoplay.exe generic virus)

The newfolder.exe/autoplay is also known as Sohanad. This virus mainly spread through storage devices like pendrive and floppy.To remove this kinda virus   I recommend to use SRT (sohanad removal tool).

The symptoms of this virus are:

    a.You will find a folder by the name New folder.exe in a drive or a new folder in every folder you have

    b. Your hard disk partition will have a Autoplay option if you right click on it

To use this just download the tool. Now restart your comp and enter safemode. Insert all the removable storage device that might have this virus Now run this tool and your a free of this virus.
DOWNLOAD SRT

2.Enable /Disable task manager

• Go to regedit(START>>>RUN>>>Now type REGEDIT)
• Navigate to this folder HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
• Now make the find value DisableTaskMgr
  change it's Data to one of these as required (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)

 3.Remove UST virus/ Funny scandal virus

It's also called as Funny scandal virus coz file name is Funny UST Scandal. avi.exe This is a dangerous virus as it turns off the most antivirus upon installation.  Funny UST Scandal.exe may infect network computers, through network shares and infected messages, Yahoo messenger and stop all running process.
Just download this tool to remove the virus.

UST VIRUS REMOVER

 4.Remove Medichi virus

The Medichi Virus is an common virus. IT causes several issues on the user desktop that will render the system nearly useless.  It will disable control panel i.e you cannot change anything in control panel . The system tray time is also changed. You will receive messages that will say you have been infected by spyware and ask you to download this spyware removal tool.
To remove the virus just delete (SHIFT + DELETE)

• C:\WINDOWS\medichi.exe
• C:\WINDOWS\medichi2.exe.

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