How to remove Viruses from Registry

These steps are to remove viruses that have installed in the windows Registry.

NOTE: Make sure you backup the registry before you do the steps.

For removing Downloader virus, Please do the following steps.

1 Delete c:\windows\system\svhost.exe, c:\windows\svchost32.exe

2 By using msconfig, Remove entry from startup.

3. For enabling Regedit,

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t

REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

4 For enabling ie6 home page

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Inte rnet Explorer\Control Panel\Homepage--->0

5. For enabling Task manager by ctrl+Alt+Del,

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

After all of the above steps, We need to update windows once.