How to Remove Virut Botnet Malware from Your PC

Virut is a botnet malware family that has been infecting computers since it first appeared in 2006. Through these years it has modified and updated itself with advanced anti-detection techniques so that it does not get caught by regular antivirus products. It uses many polymorphic and encryption techniques that make it so difficult to detect. But by using the right tools, you can detect and remove it from your system very easily. Here is how you can remove Virut malware from your PC:

1. Using AVG Virut Remover Tool

  1. Download avg_remover_virut.exe and save it to your desktop.
  2. Double-click on the downloaded file to run it. It may ask you for administrator permissions, you have to click Yes if it does.

    How to Remove Virut Botnet Malware from Your PC

  3. You would see a window titled Virus Remover for Win32/Virut. The application would automatically start the scanning of all of your hard disk drives. A listbox would auto-scroll to show you which files have been scanned. A summary of how many objects have been scanned, how many were infected and how many were cleaned is also shown.

    How to Remove Virut Botnet Malware from Your PC

  4. During the scan it will try to heal the infected files. If an active virus is found loaded in the system memory, the tool will ask the user to reboot the computer. Healing will be performed during operating system boot-up sequence, so any active virus cannot interfere with the healing process.

2. Using Kaspersky Virut Remover Tool

  1. Download VirutKiller.exe and save it to your desktop.
  2. Double-click on the downloaded file to run it. It may ask you for administrator permissions, you have to click Yes if it does.
  3. You would see CLI (command line interface) window that would automatically start to scan threads, processes, hooks and all the files on all the connected disk drives.

    How to Remove Virut Botnet Malware from Your PC

  4. During the scan it will seek and terminate malicious threads, unhook hooked undocumented API functions, disinfect the infected files (if any are found). During the scan, it will also continuously keep scanning running processes for malicious programs every 10 seconds and terminate them. It may ask you for rebooting after the scan is over for complete cleaning.

If your computer is infected with one malware, there is a possibility there are other malicious programs lurking on your hard disk. So after you have cleaned Virut malware, you should download and install a full antivirus product like avast! antivirus or AVG free antivirus to protect your PC. You may also want to scan your complete system with ESET Online Scanner to detect and remove the viruses that might be hiding in your PC.