[ELRayford]

Originally Posted by UserNameGoesHere

Once you are infected with anything there are two and only two ways to truly remedy that. One such way is to restore from a known good backup (saved on some medium other than the infected one, of course -- backup partitions on an infected hard drive are no good). The other way is to wipe the medium (fully 0-write it) and reinstall everything from scratch.

NOTHING apart from one of those two methods can guarantee the malware was removed, despite what anyone else tells you. (Keep in mind the computer repair place just wants your money and will run some programs which will remove some stuff and they'll do what they can but you can never be sure it is 100% except for one of the two above methods)

I would have to call you on this one. It very much depends on the type of malware/infection. I have been successful in completely removing various forms of malware. Rkill bad processes, Find infected files, delete files, find bad registry entries, delete registry entries. Infection gone. Sometimes you can remove a malware infection in minutes. Sometimes you "can't" remove it without reloading the OS.

Give THIS a read. THIS is a sort of walkthrough of the manual removal process. Pretty easy.