It should give quite a bit of information and what you can kill that is not locked in Registry.Īny more it takes me less than 6 hours. From a command prompt you can use 'tasklist and taskkill' to kill unwanted processes that you do not recognize.įrom the Safe Mode you should be able to transfer a copy of HiJack this to the machine and run it.

If you are a Glutten for punishment, you can Boot into the Safe Mode and then attempt a 'System Restore' to some date a month old (or when you know you last touched the machine or when Microsoft did an Automatic restore point duing and update cycle.). While doing that make your sure your Daughter does the installs (object lesson). The worst case is to boot into the Safe Mode with Network support and mount the network share, then use xcopy to copy the files.Īs you should have all the CD's to restore the OS and Applications, then 6 hours doing that is a Safe investment of time. Of burn to CD (which can be checked later).

First back up important files to a 'Network machine' with a Good Virus Scanner! See what it tries to catch. It really depends on how much time you have to play with and if you really want to learn how to kill it. The Trojan was created for Extortion and Identity Theft. I am looking a name for this virus and a way to remove it. I remember hearing about this virus some time ago and it was rather insidious. It is also asking for $80.00 USD and a credit card number to restore everything as it was. Daughter has been using my laptop (non cruncher) for some time now and she has acquired a virus that removed a lot of stuff from the desktop, Windows XP Pro.

Malwarebytes vs avast vs hijack this