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Old Nov 21, 2013 | 5:12 am
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edoa
 
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Originally Posted by Landing Gear
Thanks for this reference. As you can imagine, I canot run the scanner from that website since I cannot get online with the infected computer.

I did try their manual removal steps. Taking a deep breath, I opened REGEDIT but was unable to find either of the two things they referenced. Perhaps I am not doing it right.

The Level 2 McAfee guy sent me a couple of links to download some ziped files which and instructions for a BAT file. This should turn into a "deep scan" of the hard drive that you are supposed to run from the comman line over a few hours.

Q. Is there anybody outside the tech field, under the age of 40, who would have a bloody clue how to run a program from a thumb drive onto the root directory? Fortunately, I grew up on DOS so I can at least get this rolling.

McAfee, you suck!
Oh boy...

Anyway, we have had tons of such cases, depending on which version of the virus you got, you can unlock the PC with this:

Kaspersky Rescue Disk

And this is a guide on how to use the disk.

If you should have any questions, you can write me a PM if you'd like.

One important thing, after you used the windows unlocker, scan your pc for viruses with the disk. If you just boot the pc after unlocking it, the virus will lock the pc again...

Good luck!
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