How to use live Ubuntu disc to recover windows pc

[DamarisK]

So my computer was running Windows has been kidnapped. I'm pretty sure it was because my mom to download a zip file, but could not have been. However, ZoneAlarm was giving me the message that was blocking a program. As a result I set aside denying. After that I received a message commencing what come into view to be the Windows firewall through opening Firefox and thought that Firefox had been infected (or something). Does somebody know it? Please share your thinking with me thanks.

[BethanyI]

Hi I am facing the same problems. After that I click on something toward articulate regarding the enhanced Windows Firewall (cannot memorize precisely, did it so rapidly without thoughts). After that I did a scan through AVG and cleaned the whole thing that could be established. Then reboot and my computer are useless. Very few were boot processes, a pair of processes does not have names, and I could not run any programs. Then I turned off and unplugged the power cord.

[Wali]

Hello someday before I was facing same issue, but then do the following things. So I turned to my other computer and did a concert installing Ubuntu on a USB stick and ran Avast! In fact, just about 8 infected files that AVG never found. Anyway, after the examination was carried out and removed all viruses, unplug the power cable modem and router and booted Windows in the hope that Avast! Had cleared. After I fix my problem. I hope that helps you to thank.

[Noble]

A solitary format is sufficient. You will not increase whatever thing through doing multiple formats. If we were talking regarding real hard passes cleaning (e.g., overwrite all sectors resting on the disc itself) and he required to keep away from the forensic recovery of data (for example, the FBI looking to observe what was deleted), it would make sagacity. Nevertheless, in the direction of get rid of a virus that would be ineffective and unnecessary. A usual format does not in fact erase the data (overwritten with garbage), however only mark the sectors within the partition file system as free, consequently they can be overwritten through the data. That's very well; though not actually necessitate overwriting the virus code.

[SalVatore]

Normally, the operating system itself is compromised, as a result it will install a fresh copy, and you're erasing the entire existing files, as a result even if the code is physically resting on the disk, there is not anything to find and not anything to run. This leaves the MBR of your hard drive (the boot sector, the initial thing the BIOS runs when you load the operating system). If infected, the virus could spread again. In fact, the BIOS may have been infected, which would be even worse. Although in practice none of these potential is extremely likely, since the majority viruses today are too badly written to perform whatever thing low level similar to that.

[Waahid]

Hard to say without deliberate precisely the whole thing that possibly will have been there, unluckily. If you comprise the patience to troubleshoot this in advance, you are capable to acquire help from our Malware and Adware SFDC Recovery Team within the forum resting on malware removal; the guys are extremely good and stay on top of top of the most up-to-date threats consequently to be capable to establish what type of infectivity he had.

[DanielV]

All the software on your hard drive, malicious or otherwise, will not run under the alternate operating system. The only way the software can work if you manually operated, and even then you would use something like wine to run, it would be a Windows program, it does not work in GNU / Linux. But for of course you have been contaminated through a virus extremely complicated multi-stage contaminate the BIOS, on the way to load a second stage of a reserved area resting on the hard disk, which contains extra intelligent code that is able to stay resident and work together directly through the hardware of the network card.