How to remove Virus / Malware using ComboFix

[Golfert]

Now the computer world has become very prone to the number of virus threats and to keep your system clean you need to have some good handy anti-viruses tool, Today, here i will present you one of this and that is ComboFix. ComboFix is a program, created by sUBs, that scans your computer for known malware, and when found, attempts to clean these infections automatically. ComboFix also releases the update patches through which your computer will be ever ready to hands with the latest malware.

Download ComboFix check here

To start with, once you download you will get the following icon which represents with the ComboFix

To download ComboFix, simply click on the above links and you will see a prompt similar to the figure below.

Click on the Save button, and when it asks you where to save it, make sure you save it directly to your Windows Desktop. An image showing this is below.

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To start ComboFix, we need to take some preventative measures so that there are no conflicts with other programs when running ComboFix. At this point you should do the following:

• Close all open Windows including this one.
• Close or disable all running Antivirus, Antispyware, and Firewall programs as they may interfere with the proper running of ComboFix. Instructions on disabling these type of programs can be found in this topic.

Once these two steps have been completed, double-click on the ComboFix icon found on your desktop. Please note, that once you start ComboFix you should not click anywhere on the ComboFix window as it can cause the program to stall. In fact, when ComboFix is running, do not touch your computer at all. The scan could take a while, so please be patient.

As soon as you finished completing installation, you will see the first ComboFix screen as shown below.

As soon as you get the complete installation it will ask for the two boxes which contains their warning message.

ComboFix is now preparing to run and when it has finished you will see a screen showing the authorized locations to download Combofix. This screen, press the OK button and you will now see the Disclaimer screen shown below.

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If you do not agree to the disclaimer, then click on the No button to exit the program. Otherwise, to continue you should press the Yes button to continue. If you decided to continue, then ComboFix will create a System Restore point so that if any problems occur while using the program you can restore back to your previous configuration. When ComboFix has finished creating the restore point, it will then backup your Windows Registry as shown in the image below.

Once the Windows Registry has finished being backed up, ComboFix will attempt to detect if you have the Windows Recovery Console installed. If you already have it installed, you can skip to this section and continue reading. Otherwise you will see the following message as shown below:

When ComboFix has finished running, you will see a screen stating that it is preparing the log report as shown below.

When ComboFix has finished, it will automatically close the program and change your clock back to its original format. It will then display the log file automatically for you as shown below.

You should now post this log as a reply to the topic where you were asked to run combofix.


Source : bleepingcomputer

[Lamshai]

ComboFix 09-07-14.08 - Lamshai 07/16/2009 21:46.3.1 - FAT32x86
Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600.0.1252.1.1033.18.223.79 [GMT 5.5:30]
Running from: d:\documents and settings\Lamshai\Desktop\ComboFix.exe

[Amasterman]

ComboFix 10-01-25.02 - Adriaan 01/25/2010 17:26:12.1.1 - x86
Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600.2.1252.1.1033.18.895.594 [GMT -8:00]
Running from: c:\documents and settings\Adriaan\My Documents\Downloads\ComboFix.exe
AV: AVG Internet Security *On-access scanning disabled* (Updated) {17DDD097-36FF-435F-9E1B-52D74245D6BF}
FW: AVG Firewall *disabled* {8decf618-9569-4340-b34a-d78d28969b66}

[trumpetdude]

ComboFix 10-02-05.04 - Minnie 06/02/2010 17:13:14.1.2 - x86
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 5.1.2600.3.1252.44.1033.18.1533.1091 [GMT 0:00]
Running from: c:\documents and settings\Minnie\Desktop\ComboFix.exe
AV: AntiVir Desktop *On-access scanning disabled* (Updated) {AD166499-45F9-482A-A743-FDD3350758C7}