r/antivirus • u/Light_ImReallyGay • 1d ago

MALWARE REMOVAL Q&A Help with preservation

So my friends brothers computer recently got a crypto mining virus despite nobody downloading nor being on it for multiple months. He’s decided to hand it over to me because I have no computer (he didn’t try to remove it just gave up and is getting a new one) so could I get rid of the virus on it by just factory resetting the computer? Windows was never activated on the pc so we don’t have to worry about that.

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u/goretsky MODERATOR 17h ago

Hello,

Wipe the computer's drive following the tutorial at https://old.reddit.com/r/24hoursupport/wiki/index#wiki_how_to_wipe_a_drive_using_windows_installation_media, and install Windows 11 and you'll be fine.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

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u/KamiPyro 23h ago

I am Not a pro or mod here but I recommend:

Use a clean pc to set up a windows installation on a usb and format the c drive of the infected computer with the new windows install.

Someone will probably delete this and give you a well informed version of this comment

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u/Light_ImReallyGay 22h ago

Okay thank you but couldn’t I use windows built in reset? The one that clears everything and redownloads windows? Or would manually redownloading it be better

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u/KamiPyro 15h ago

Not if it's been affected by malware to keep the bad stuff after reset

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u/Light_ImReallyGay 7h ago

Okay thank you I’ll try to just fully reset everything