How to remove virus manually from computer

If you are exhausted of sitting and waiting for your antivirus application to delete the latest virus infection, so below steps are given. There is no requirements of programming skills. Only a basic information of command prompt syntax will do...for this demo, the virus is on the portable USB drive (e:\virus) named virus.vbs

 

1.  You have to create a back-up. Save your files and folders on removable storage device or on another partition computer aside from the Windows partition drive. Now you have to run the Windows command prompt. Either you can click on the Start Menu>>All programs>>Accessories>>Command Prompt or by pressing keys Windows + R from the keyboard and after that type “CMD”.

 

2.  Search for the directory or folder where the virus located. And then you have to go to the folder where the virus is hiding. This commonly resides on the Windows temporary folder or on the Windows system folder. So you have to verify the partitions and drives for viruses, e.g. type "cd e:\virus" .

 

3. After the displaying the hidden virus then you has to remove its attributes. It will be simpler if you can observe the virus. Eliminate the virus attributes, files and folders associated with it, which are read only, archive, system file, and hidden file. e.g. type "attrib -r -a -s -h virus.vbs". And then you have to remove the virus. Now you can easily remove the virus by deleting it, e.g. type "del virus.vbs" .