Best Virus Removal Tools: Cleaning a deeply infected system

Best Virus/Malware Removal Tools you can use to clean any system for free.

This video covers cleaning a badly infected system with malicious drivers, fake antivirus, xmrig cryptominers and more. How to remove such threats? Use the tools below:

[pcsecuritychannel]

When I say I tried pretty much every tool, I mean it. For everyone curious about how some other tool would perform, I tried:
ESET Online Scanner, F Secure, Comodo Cleaning Essentials, Emsisoft Emergency Kit, Bitdefender, Tron script etc and in the end even Protegent 😅 before coming up with this list. I went through all of these in a 1 hr stream on Discord but didn’t include here cause that would make for a boring video.

[EastCoastScott]

Leo, I was just doing a survey for a well known AV site and your channel name came up. They wanted to know if I’d like to see you or your channel (whatever they meant) in their published reports. I said HELL YES!! You’ve come a long way over the years, you have a bright future ahead.

[zebawsh]

Thank you so much, My pc got infected with a pretty deep virus that dug it's way into windows registry folders and I was searching on how to fix it because the virus was not letting me on any antivirus websites and I followed your instructions on this video and I finally recovered my 5 years of research I almost lost, so thank you I really appreciate it.

[joez.]

If your system is "deeply infected" the most effective tool BY FAR is your existing backups because you need to reload/reimage/reinstall. AND, when you tally up all the hours you'll spend tracing down remnants or just worrying - it's often faster to boot. Sometimes a LOT faster!

[youreinthematrix]

5:10 Steps to clean a deeply infected system:
1. Norton Power Eraser (repair certain system files and functions)
2. Kaspersky (advanced disinfection recommended)
3. Hitman Pro (only quarantine and delete)
4. Malwarebytes

[Frank-Thoresen]

Thank you for going through with all the testing and present the findings with us

[Netsuko]

You are the hero we need. EVERYONE needs to see your videos. Seriously.

[surfingsub]

The question that comes to mind is the system infection was obviously downloading it's own tools and not what you thought perhaps due to HOSTS file, or had a Image File Execution Options Injection settings for all of these tools. Then when you used a couple of them that were probably missing from the list they were able to run. Without having the exact infection it's difficult to say for sure which method was used, but bottom line is probably ALL of the tools or Most of the tools would have worked had IEFO or similar method of running its own tools been dealt with. It was NOT due to the tool not being able to deal with it. It was the method used to try and run it.

[stephenarkless]

I don’t believe it!?!? Norton is useful for something???

[TheRossMadness]

Honestly, when I saw the malware take over the AV downloads, my first instinct was to not do the malware removal in Windows at all. Kaspersky Rescue Disk is a Linux boot disk that lets you run KAV on an offline system. I would be curious to see how it fares in this scenario. I've used it and Bitdefender Rescue CD (RIP) in the past with some good success.

[wannabedal-adx]

Leo, if you have to ask if we want to see a demo on something you mentioned in a video. The likely answer is YES!!! 😎 This is awesome info you put out for the novice to amateur computer user. Thanks for this video!

[CoolJoshk]

I feel like the idea here is to clean up the system enough that what might remain of the user’s valued data can be offloaded to a backup, then the OS completely reinstalled.

[onysWorld]

A customized Tron script video will be amazing to watch. I'm looking forward for that one.

[Evile_]

Thank you so much for this video, I searched for deep cleaning virus tools and your video was probably the savior of my steam account. In my stupidity I downloaded a sketchy piece of software that ended up stealing my account information and sold all my in-game items :( fortunately, I recovered my account just in time, i'm stealing a bit paranoid if some piece of malware is running deep inside my system but from what I can tell, my computer is cleaned.

Thank you so much for making this video, you save my PC <3.

[cepay]

I love this kind of testing AV's and AV's tools videos!

[markganus]

this is my new favourite channel. i can barely wait to get home from work and from class and try it out

[delcogoblin]

Thanks for the help, man. I'm starting a small PC repair business and I was looking for some good tools to clear infected computers. I'm more of a hardware repair guy but I want to open the business to anyone in need of assistance.

[rb]

The biggest problem with malware and virus removal is that no single tool finds everything. So, your approach of utilizing MULTIPLE or SEVERAL tools is strongly recommended. I use the following approach; Whenever possible, use an off-line tool to scan the system such as one which runs from a USB. Better yet, if you have a second computer, pull the infected drive and scan it with the second (uninflected) computer using multiple tools. This ensures that NO suspect processes could possibly have been running. place the computer into “Safe Mode” which only allows the Windows system files necessary to run. THEN, perform your cleanup. Unless you know EXACTLY when your system was compromised, you have to consider that system restore points are also worthless. I’ve seen this time and time again. If you restore to a certain point, you wind up re-infecting your system all over again. Only after doing THIS level of cleanup will you be better assured that the cleanup is complete.

[onlyVetements]

the best way to deep clean an infected pc is to wipe the drive and start fresh, and not install some sketchy software again. keep your stuff backed up, and stay safe and comfy!

[tubehenry]

I would certainly appreciate a video on Tron. Thanks for this one, by the way.