Found a malicious autorun.inf file on one of my harddrives today. Problem? It's my main one, the one that holds all of the BSB and *NSYNC footage and pictures I own. AND I DO MEAN ALL
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I'm resigned to getting all my files off the hdd, and then reformatting it and using another uninfected one to store them all. I only have BitDefender, the anti-virus programmes are not my choice as my father buys them. :P
Already tried out Malwarebytes and Spybot to no avail. :( Have also tried a couple of autorun cleaners but those didn't work either. *sigh* In any case I'm close to finishing my file transfers and am going to reformat it soon. Hopefully it works.
Yeah, you're probably safest just reformatting... that's a pain, I know. Ugh, my laptop caught a virus last year that I just could not get rid of, so I ended up having to do a system restore, which is also a total pain, so I sympathize. Good luck!
You can download a trial version of Kaspersky, I don't know how full the software would be though. But, if you'd like Kaspersky I could probably get you a licence. I have one free with my university, but as I already have a perchased copy it's just going spare. Granted it'll only last till the end of september.
Either way best of luck, I can't remember how many times I've had to reformat my main hard drive before I got a decent anti-virus.
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Whatever you do, don't even waste time with Avast, McAfee or AVG.
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(it's the second one) which is just using the start up menu.
You can download a trial version of Kaspersky, I don't know how full the software would be though. But, if you'd like Kaspersky I could probably get you a licence. I have one free with my university, but as I already have a perchased copy it's just going spare. Granted it'll only last till the end of september.
Either way best of luck, I can't remember how many times I've had to reformat my main hard drive before I got a decent anti-virus.
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