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How do you get rid of the stealth boot virus?

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Answer:

Run a couple of online virus scans
Run Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
Run a complete scan with free curing utility Dr.Web CureIt!

If you still have the problem you need to run

RootkitRevealer
www.Microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/RootkitRevealer.HTML

Sophos Anti-Rootkit

www.sophos.com/products/free-tools/sophos-anti-rootkit.HTML

And post your hijackthis log on a hijackthis forum (NOT HERE)

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I'm not sure how to get rid of the stealth boot virus, I've never had it but I'm guessing that it opens during the boot process of your computer. One thing you could try is going to Start>run> and type msconfig. On the window that opens up go to startup then you can go to Google or some other search engine and type in the name of the startup items to see if any are not supposed to be there. Otherwise there are a couple programs out there that allow you to see what programs open at starup, you could find one that isn't supposed to be there. I hope this helps

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