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Charlie
I have a friend whose PC was infected by a variety of malware. They
prevented him doing anything such as running an antivirus program.
I was able to clean his hard drive by using it as an external drive on my
system and then running a virus checker and was able to detect and delete
more than a dozen infections. But now there is apparently a rogue registry
entry that keeps the HD searching and searching and doesn't allow anything
else to work because the cpu is at 100% almost continuously.
What I would try to do next is go back to running the drive externally and
edit the particular registry key manually.
Things that have not been successful so far include regedit, msconfig,
add/remove or system restore or running any utilities from a flash drive.
When the drive is out of the box and connected as an external drive I plan
to delete the folder that has the offending application.
But then I want to access the registry and search for and delete the
unwanted key.
A Google search showed lots of cures that required getting rid of the
offending key.
How do I locate the registry from outside of a Windows environment?
Charlie
prevented him doing anything such as running an antivirus program.
I was able to clean his hard drive by using it as an external drive on my
system and then running a virus checker and was able to detect and delete
more than a dozen infections. But now there is apparently a rogue registry
entry that keeps the HD searching and searching and doesn't allow anything
else to work because the cpu is at 100% almost continuously.
What I would try to do next is go back to running the drive externally and
edit the particular registry key manually.
Things that have not been successful so far include regedit, msconfig,
add/remove or system restore or running any utilities from a flash drive.
When the drive is out of the box and connected as an external drive I plan
to delete the folder that has the offending application.
But then I want to access the registry and search for and delete the
unwanted key.
A Google search showed lots of cures that required getting rid of the
offending key.
How do I locate the registry from outside of a Windows environment?
Charlie