Any techie willing to help pls

Salam all,

I am facing a problem and I can’t seem to figure it out. I had downloaded a movie from torrents.to and now everytime I try to open the folder, windows explorer crashes and I get a message that it is restarting. And then the folder is closed. I have tried deleting that movie and folder in safe mode but it doesn’t get deleted. The file is above 1 GB and when I try to delete it in safe mode, it just gives me the message that it is deleting and calculating the time but this goes on for a very long time.

Can anyone pls help me deleting this file. Thanks in advance.

Re: Any techie willing to help pls

Welcome to the world of illegal downloads AKA Virusland :smiley:

Can you restore your computer to an earlier time, to before you downloaded that movie?

Re: Any techie willing to help pls

U can use MiniPE CD to delete the file/files.

Re: Any techie willing to help pls

Thank you TLK, I am usually careful but was trying to please hubby by downloading more movies …he loves movies…

Chawani , what is MiniPE CD? Any other way ?

Re: Any techie willing to help pls

or you an try…How to Delete An Infected File Or Folder From Command Prompt

Re: Any techie willing to help pls

There are other ways to please the hubby… maatha peeting

For starters: Download malwarebytes, update it and then run full scan… REMOVE everything it detects.

Re: Any techie willing to help pls

Jaan leva…: LOL yes there are … and I will do what you have suggested with malwarebytes and get back to you.

Re: Any techie willing to help pls

You should learn the lesson and next time download movies from reliable torrent sites only :smiley:

Re: Any techie willing to help pls

hI,
Two techniques you can use :

  1. Before deleting such file/folder always delete temporary files in temp folders to access these
    go to start>run>Type “temp” and/or %temp%. delete all files then delete the desired file/folder
    2)Use cc cleaner. Go to options>include>add and then browse to destination folder. then run the cc cleaner. You will be done.

For more help, You can also try this
Delete any infected file/folder-TECHYV

Re: Any techie willing to help pls

What is cc cleaner? and how do I get to it. I deleted all the files in the temp folder

Re: Any techie willing to help pls

If Malwarebytes did not help, cc cleaner won’t do much.

Download ComboFix (should be run by a techie but oh well). When you save the file for download, RENAME IT to something like Combo-Fix.exe BEFORE saving, not after downloading… and then RUN IT AS ADMINISTRATOR.