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Recovering your Windows or Vista OS from almost any virus, that disables Task Manager and Registry editing. 100% free and effective! ! !

Few days ago my XP system was infected by a virus that disables CTL+ALT+DEL, Regedit, msconfig etc. It was impossible to clean my system, I tried all possible tools such as combofix, HijackThis, Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware, Kaspersky etc but none of them achieved to clean it. That’s why im going to explain it how to do it in the hard way, it is painful and it takes a long time but at least you will save all you data. Some of you might say: “why don’t you backup your documents and do formatting”, I have tried it many times but I had always lost some files such as my favorite internet links or documents from my desktop.

Here is the method I’m always using:

I’m installing a new fresh and clean copy of any version of windows on a second partition or in a new folder in the partition where the operating system that I want to save is located in.
When the new OS is installed login into it, but do not install any drivers and do not open any drive from My Computer by double clicking on it, because usually there are hidden autoron.inf files that triggers the viruses when you browse the drive.
Install only the LAN card drivers or WiFi card if you’re connecting through air, so you can connect to the internet. Setup an internet connection and connect to the internet.
Next you have to scan all of your drives through TeendMicro’s House Call online scanning. It is free and it is they have one of the biggest virus databases. Clean all detected viruses, spyware, malaware, Trojan and cookies that are you told to be infected, but make sure that you don’t delete any important files because antivirus software’s can make mistakes too.
This doesn’t guarantee you that your 100 clean so go to Kaspersky’s website and they offer free online scanning too. Run a scan from their website and delete any additional infected files that might be detected from Kaspersky.
Edit the boot.ini file so next time you boot your PC, the old Operating System can boot.
Finally the last step is to delete all files of the new OS, but I advice you to keep it so next time you get infected, you can do the cleaning much faster.

I do accept that you will need to have intermediate IT skills to do this, but believe me its not so hard, once you learn it, you will ask your self how I didn’t think about this before. The best thing of all is that you won’t have to buy any crap of software, since you’ll use only free sources.

My advice is: Don’t buy or install any kind of antivirus protection software on your PC, they only use PC resources, and they never do their job as you expect to do. Always keep the windows firewall on and install a version of Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware which is a freeware and run full system scan once per week.