Many IT security experts will recommend using a combination of tools including Malware Bytes and HitmanPro to perform the belt-and-braces (lovely Northern phrase, that) security sweep in order to get maximum coverage. Using Kasperksy, I managed to zap the malware without resorting to a factory reset. Your machine will now start up into your normal Windows operating system. In the bottom left of the screen where the Windows Start button normally sits is the Kaspersky Start button – click that and select Restart. Once the the virus removal is complete you need to reboot your machine, removing the rescue disk CD or flash drive (otherwise you reboot straight back into Kaspersky Rescue Disk). On the whole, Kaspersky does a through job of finding and deleting malware. A couple of alerts were false positives for legitimate software or plugins and I restored those from the Quarantine tab. The first time I ran it on the laptop, it found eleven threats including six types of malware. Select Delete or Quarantine to delete or isolate the virus from your machine.The utility has further options for Quarantine, Reporting and Settings. Kaspersky will alert you that it has found a virus or Trojan on your computer. This may take some time to finish.When the update is complete, go to the Objects Scan tab and choose which drives you want the program to scan select Start Objects Scan.The objects scan can take anything from a few minutes to a few hours – on the 120GB laptop drive with Windows 7, it took four hours to complete.
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