Recently a friend of mine has his computer infected with the Think Point Virus.
What this does is, it's installed onto the computer, seems to hijack and control
the system startup, meaning nothing will start but the virus
and the Think Point will display(showing as a fake antivirus program)
saying the computer is infected with this many etc. you get it.
His computer had Mawlware what ever anti Malware installed so I attemped
to scan the computer, 4 viruses were caught.
Then to do a bootscan, I installed Avast! free and did so.
4 more viruses were gone. Problem is, the Think Point Virus is still there, I'm trying to find a way to rid of this.
Does anyone have any solutions? Like an special virus removal tool or the like?
I searched the net for answers they all said to just simply scan the computer, which does'nt help much.
He has Vista btw, tell me if you need more info.
This section may help people who may search for this part... Think Point Virus
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There's a way to "stop" the virus as in being active.
Once the Virus is displayed, do not touch the darn thing!
If possible,simply press Ctrl+Alt+Del, bring up the Task Manager,
and End the Process called Hotfix.exe.
The virus should go away...but not forever!
Your now left with nothing. While the Task Manager is still up,
Go to File
and select New Task(Run)
now type in "Explorer.exe"
the computer should start just fine.