The crypto locker virus removal part 2
This is the second part for the cypto locker virus removal. Now you are looking at a different computer you are wondering what’s going on. Remember that unit I actually have over here? We took the hard drive out because the unit itself aside from the cryptowall virus it had other issues. So it wasn’t booting up and we couldn’t go online. It was so junked up with malware. I couldn’t even go online and follow the procedures.
We tried it on Linux and that didn’t work so I’m going to try here now. I am going to do a virus removal on it. We got this little Netbook and just installed a fresh OS. I am going to work on this book here. Then at the end I am going to wipe it and reformat this hard drive. You don’t want to mess around here. I’ve got it attached externally. This is the hard drive with the crypto virus on it. So once this is done I just format this hard drive. You don’t want to get this hard drive in contact with any computer. And you don’t want to be online. Here I am not connected to my network.
Do not connect to network!
You don’t want to connect to your network I actually disabled wireless, you do not want to screw around with this thing and have it travel to another computer. Long story short I installed on this little unit here malwarebytes I got a couple others that we are going to run some malware cleaner. I am going to run Hitman Pro as well. So we are going to run a few of these things so this is basically our first step, install that, did the update and we are going to run the scan out here and then…basically the goal that I am trying to do here is clean it up so I could get the unit to boot, so that I could go to the site and follow the instructions.
If I can’t do it with this drive then I am going to do it on this Windows computer right here but apparently it looks like it wants to be accessed from the unit that’s got the virus on it. So I’ll follow up, I am going to run this scan now and I’m not going to have you sit here and watch it. So I’ll get back in and I will show you the results in a few. See you in a little bit.