❔ How to clean 100% sure an infected pc?
I found so far nobody that helped me. I never had an infected pc or computer
I spoke with Toshiba (my pc's manufacturer) and I used as synonym "reboot" and "factory reset" but I got told they are 2 different things
My pc currently does not do anything weird, until a few days there was a fake pop up window that would show with nothing in there but I fixed it
I work with my pc and I still have doubts that my pc is 100% clean from viruses, malware s etc.
Few days ago I transferred the important files to a hard drive, I don't think they are infected but can I removed all viruses if I do backup of infected files?
What's the best and most effective course of action to get back my pc 100% safe and clean when wiping everything out?
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wipe and reinstall windows
just having an infected file on disk is harmless, unless you run it and the virus injects itself in autostart or modifies some programs or files. a system reinstall would clean the autostart and registry and whatnot, so you should be fine after that
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