How to manually remove virus which generates folder.exe

Step: 1

• Search for autorun.inf file. It is a read only file so you will have to change it to normal by right clicking the file, selecting the properties and un-check the read only option.
• Open the file in notepad and delete everything and save the file.
• Now change the file status back to read only mode so that the virus could not get access again.
• Click start->run and type msconfig and click ok
• Go to startup tab look for regsvr and uncheck the option click OK.
• Click on Exit without Restart, because there are still few things we need to do before      
• We can restart the PC.
• Now go to control panel -> scheduled tasks, and delete the At1 task listed there.

Step: 2

• Click on start -> run and type gpedit.msc and click Ok.
• If you are Windows XP Home Edition user you might not have gpedit.msc in that case
• download and install it from Windows XP Home Edition: gpedit.msc and then follow
• These steps.
• Go to users configuration->Administrative templates->system
• Find “prevent access to registry editing tools” and change the option to disable.
• Once you do this you have registry access back.

Step: 3

• Click on start->run and type regedit and click ok
• Go to edit->find and start the search for regsvr.exe,
• Delete all the occurrence of regsvr.exe; remember to take a backup before deleting.
• KEEP IN MIND regsvr32.exe is not to be deleted. Delete regsvr.exe occurrences only.
• At one or two places you will find it after explorer.exe in these cases only deletes the
• Regsvr.exe part and not the whole part. E.g. Shell=“Explorer.exe regsvr.exe” the just delete the regsvr.exe and leave the explorer.exe

Step: 4

• Click on start->search->for files and folders.
• Their click all files and folders
• Type “*.exe” as filename to search for
• Click on ‘when was it modified ‘ option and select the specify date option
• Type from date as 1/31/2008 and also type To date as 1/31/2008
• Now hit search and wait for all the exe’s to show up.
• Once search is over select all the exe files and shift+delete the files, caution must be taken so that you don’t delete the legitimate exe file that you have installed on 31^st January.
• Also selecting lot of files together might make your computer unresponsive so delete them in small bunches.
• Also find and delete regsvr.exe, svchost .exe( notice an extra space between the svchost and .exe)

Now do a cold reboot (i.e. press the reboot button instead) and you are done.

Run Windows XP on Windows 7

It’s been a long time since the release of Windows 7 but there are few individuals who are not impressed with Windows 7 and want to continue with XP.


Windows XP is so simple and easy to use that not everyone wants to come out of XP. So if you are using Windows 7 but also wants XP back then Windows 7 has something interesting for you.


The feature is called “XP mode on windows 7” and it can enable you to continue with XP while using Windows 7. This feature works with the feature called Windows Virtual PC. Other advantage of this feature is that while Windows 7 is compatible with most of the applications in XP, in case there is some application that runs only on XP then you can run it easily.


The only thing to note is that you must have Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate to run Windows XP Mode. Download link for the same is given below:


http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx


Note: This particular version of software would run only on the processor which has got the feature called Intel VT