Your virus removal process...when to nuke?

[Cambridge PC Support]

I pretty much always do the slave drive method.

a. Backup user data
b. Remove temp files
c. Scan with Avast
d. Scan with MBAM
e. Chkdsk
f. Defrag

- it gets rid of most things pretty quickly as it's running on a fast(ish) computer which is dedicated to running scans and data recovery stuff

Then I pop it back into the PC to clean up the rest

very rarely do an N&P - it's very rare that anyone complains about having been N&P'd when I do

 

[kagman]

Always use several anti virus programs for scanning because while one might not catch everything, you have another one that might pickup something. Same with spyware. Then the joy comes in when it picks up false positives.. lol... Joy!!!

After hearing about what everyone here does for searching and destroying viruses and spyware, ive decided to build myself a computer that will only have 1 job. It will be used to remove all the nasty stuff it can find on a computer. Will attach the clients hard drive to the computer and run various scans.

From what i can tell some of you like to slave the hard drive or connect it via usb for scanning then there are those that dont trust this method. lol... Any ideas???

--Jose--

 

[trapped]

I find that slaving doesn't usually find the rootkit. The only surefire way I have found is to manually go in and remove the rootkit using UBCD4WIN or ERD Commander. I then boot into Windows and run malwarebytes to clean up the leftovers.

 

[kagman]

Oh i am aware of the rootkits not being found. Was figuring that "The Cleaner" would take care of finding the major carp on the system. Ive installed several antivirus and antispyware on it. Has plenty of hard drive space to house a system image of the clients hard drive, and just to be on the safe side it will isolated from the rest of the network.

Actually im just looking to justify another computer lol...


--Jose--