• How do i reinstall my computer COMPLETELY?
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Yeah so a while ago i got a trojan horse and i reinstalled my computer. But i think there is still a virus hidden. When i scan the computer it cant find something, but some of the system files have some suspicious names. How can i reinstall my computer, with 64-bit (im using 32-bit) and be 100% sure of it being virus free?? System stuff: [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/specs9.png[/img] Also please dont rage at me for not being able to solve this myself. I pretty much want the computer like it was when i bought it [editline]30th June 2011[/editline] and as i said, didnt work the first time i installed it.
grab your Windows 7 disk, boot to it, format your current Windows partition (actually just wipe all the partitions if you have any other ones like a 10GB recovery partition, apparently some really nasty rootkits can get into that - and make one new, large partition), and install Windows 7 over it. Problem solved. Be sure to back up all your documents and stuff first, though - don't want to lose that stuff. [editline]30th June 2011[/editline] if you want to know why that is a 100% guarantee of no viruses, formatting your hard drive deletes the index of files on each of the partitions. All your data is just binary garbage, you replace it with a new file table and it will overwrite that old binary garbage as you write new files to the disk. None of that binary garbage is executable, because Windows doesn't even know if it exists. It just knows that there's unused space on that part of the hard drive.
thank you, but i think i will have to read that twice. [editline]30th June 2011[/editline] i just right click on my harddrive and press format? i am really not a computer whiz [editline]30th June 2011[/editline] is it the recovery disc i have to use? [editline]30th June 2011[/editline] i suck at this [editline]30th June 2011[/editline] can you like maybe join the chat thing or something?
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