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How to Manually remove a virus from your computer

This guide focuses on manually removing viruses and malware from your computer. Step 1: Press the keys [Windows] + [R] to open the windows run. Type msconfig then press enter  Then look for suspicious files. Here we see one. It’s an unknown manufacturer, and it also has a startup key that we’ve never seen until recently. Uncheck it from startup and/or from services. If you think you are being monitored. Open Command Prompt and do the following Step 2 Boot into safe mode. This can be done by checking the box in the “boot” tab in msconfig. Step 3 Run msconfig in safe mode and we can see it’s checked because the virus is persistent. The virus will not be running, however, due to the fact that we are currently in safe mode. Step 4 Navigate to the registry. We are doing this in safe mode because some viruses disable the registry. Note: Be sure your folder options are set to show hidden files and folders Step 5:Navigate to the location of the virus. If you