If i erase my hole hardrive will it get rid of a Virus???

Question

I got a virus and there's nothing important on the computer so i want to know that if i wipe it clean will the virus be gone... just making sure because i thought that a virus could hack into the computer... THANKS

Answer 1

Give this a try,

Restart your PC in safe mode with networking

http://www.pchell.com/support/safemode.s...

Download, install and run a full scan with Malwarebytes

http://www.malwarebytes.org

Run a full scan with Micro Trend House Call

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

After the scans, restart the PC and update your anti-virus, remember to only have one anti-virus installed on your PC

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-...  [Free, if you do not have one]

Answer 2

Maybe. Some viruses hide themselves in protected areas that wont be removed by wiping. determine the virus and find out what the best course of removal is before doing anything drastic.

Answer 3

not necessarily. A simple erase is not likely to remove most problematic viruses. a FORMAT would remove many but still not all. You would need to format ALL areas of ALL hard drives or other storage devices to be sure.  

Answer 4

Yes it will. As will installing a new OS, such as

http://www.ubuntu.com

Answer 5

just do a complete re install of windows from your recovery disk [ cd ] and you'll be fine

Answer 6

yup