Will a new hard drive remove virus

Original Title: wiping the hard drive Had a virus, not sure it was completely wiped out. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 9. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. SpiritX Volunteer Moderator. Hi, When you use the recovery that will remove everything on the drive.

A few things I want to address: when opening folders even the drive itself would the display thumbnails be executing any files in order to display their visual snippets? Also as far as moving to a Unix OS to then inspect, especially on a system that contains your system as in either the LiveBoot or DualBoot option used on the same system holding your hard drive with your OS Windows or Mac or Linux , your risk of exposure is still present.

For instance, suppose you downloaded a Linux virus, a Mac virus, and a Windows virus. How would you know, anyway? My 5 year old desktop was infected with something a few months ago. My Avast said my pc was clean, but it keeps re-directing my browser to some ad site or to random search pages. Just want to get some pictures, some necessary files, and then wipe the old computer clean—along with the nasty little whatever it is—preferably without infecting my new one.

A great program for this is hijackthis, there are tons of forums out there that you can post your log and they will tell you what is causing you problems. It is also great for other malware affecting your system not only your browser as it scans your whole computer, the registry everything that starts up and all the components loading into your browser. My desktop computer was infected with a virus that cannot easily be removed. My question is: Will we be infected with the virus if we copy the photos and program files before running the Power Eraser Scan?

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Search Ask Leo! Do this Subscribe to Confident Computing! I'll see you there! Would sincerely appreciate the help. Leave a reply: Before commenting please: Read the article. Comment on the article. Status Not open for further replies. Hey, If any one has a fix on this I would give em a big kiss. I saw somebody on a new post today had the same problem. Im on my other non-infected computer looking for fixes Norton identified a virus a month or so back but could not remove it my assumption is that the virus was preventing quaranteen.

I tried to index it and it was listed as a low level security risk. However I am finding it a challange to remove. I believe it to be a backdoor virus of some sort. I tried removing it manually by a restore and disabeling backup to no avail.

When I tried to install another anti virus program I was blocked by the administrator. I ordered backup CD's from HP and still had the same problem with the wipe. So my thought was that it was in the partition drive. Where can the virus be and how can I remove? Thank you 8. I am having the same virus problem.

I have still to reformat my hard drive. One question though when I reformat the hard drive should the broadband modem and the wireless router be already connected to the PC? Or should it be disengaged and just plug it back in after the reformat is done???? My manufacturer HP recommends removing all unneeded devices, only leave the keyboard, mouse and anything else needed for the recovery. Are you showing symptoms of pixels out of place or trailing pixels from the mouse?