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How to get rid of a trojan virus

Feb 9, 2015 11:03PM PST

I have a computer with windows 7 which has this virus on it: Trojan/scratch/virus/M2f318a54.exe. Does anyone know how I can get this off of the computer?

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Bug
Feb 9, 2015 11:09PM PST

You could try this, go to a clean computer, download Malwarebytes (free download) send to a flash drive, go to the sick system, boot into Safe Mode with Networking, input the FD, run scan with MWB, see what it picks up, attempt removal.This is a simple basic starting point and may do the trick, good luck!

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Also, Grif has good advice at link.
Feb 9, 2015 11:12PM PST
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I typically run
Feb 10, 2015 11:51PM PST

Anti malwarebytes and I go into add and remove programs and order by date and remove the programs I know i didn't install or ones i didn't willingly install.