Tuesday, 6 May 2014

How To Remove Recycler Virus From Your PC - Windows XP/Vista/7/8Recycler virus,also known as Auto run virus is one of the known computer virus when we handle with a computer. It is nowbecoming a threat to our system every day. The main feature of this virus is that it can reproduce and can put content in the active drives and it includes the external drives. The removable media will contain association fileknown as autorun.inf and it will be reproduced into every drive which includes the removable drives.When we are connecting to the internet the virus will download the codes which are malicious to the computer and it can steal theconfidential and personal information from our computer. The passwords can also be retrieved using the malicious codes. This virus is now growing and even the strongantiviruscannot detect this characteristic and it is not removed from the computer.Methods for removing the Recycler virusFirst End the process"Ctfmon.exe"The Recycler virus folder is reproduced every time when we delete it from local drives. The problem is that the supporting process are running in the background. A Process known as Ctf loader and it needs to be closed for treatment of this virus. For ending this process, we need to go to task manager and then right click the taskbar. If your mouse is not working properly, then pressALT+ Ctr and Deltogether and then the task manager will be loaded. For loading the process directly pressCtrl shift and Esc together. Find thectfmon.exeprocess and then end that process. Removing the Recycler entriesNow the supporting process is closed and the Recycler folder virus is now under control. Next we need to remove entries from thewindows registry. Open the registry editor by typing regedit in run command and locate the installed components underhkey/local machine\software\Microsoft\active setup\and delete this {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAX5-90401C608512} entry. Hidden objectsThe objects which are nasty may hide theirhidden system files. For finding more malicious files, we must Un hide our hidden filesand folders for viewing the infections. The explorer must open always. Next, go to tools menu and then select the folder options. Under folder options we will see aview tabanduncheckthedisplaycontentsof system folders andhide extensionfile types and also hide the protectedoperating system files. Deleting the instancesHere we need to find the every virus which appears on our disk. We need to find through our localdrives and delete the suspicious files which end in .Cmd or .Bat. Avoid autorun.bat and command.cmd. We must delete the CTF loader executable files by pressing the windows key. Type ctfmon.exe and don’t press enter button and find it in the search list and then delete. Now we have removed the elements which are a threat to our computer. Next we need to restart our system for configuringthe changes which we have made. We need to find some measures for making our system more secure.Scan the viruses and registry errorsAfter rebooting the system, don’t run programs and applications. Sometimes it can make more problems. When we log into the windows, run antivirus utility which will scan viral components and remove it accordingly. If our system is virus free, take registry cleaning application and run it for detecting invalid or corrupt entries in windows registry. It takes some time for fixing the registry errors. Check Out Some Alternative methods !!Typing in the run commandClick start menu and then type cmd and click ok. Now the cmd panel will be opened up and here we assume our external hard drive letter. Enter this command attrib -h -r -s /s /d g:\*.* and replace the letter g with our external hard drive letter. Then we can check for fileson external hard drive. Manual removalUsing the command prompt openthe drive letter and find hidden and system files. Find and delete application which is having a folder icon. Next we need to find for newly created files which is known by you and delete which is not done by you. Then run a full system scan. The important thing is that we should not double or right click as it will infect the drive. The Best thing isto open a command prompt and type CD and then type drive letter. For viewing hidden system files type attrib -r -a -s -h and then press enter button. It will delete read only archive system and hidden attributes of all files. The Final step is run full system scan antivirus and anti spyware application for finding traces of recycled virus.