How to Remove the Recycler Virus
The Recycler virus is a trojan that is transferred to a computer
system through an infected removable storage device such as a flash drive. This
particular virus will change the drive access method on an infected machine. A
user will get an error message about a missing recycler.exe file when double
clicking on their local hard disk or flash drive. A variant of this virus will
also corrupt some system files which can cause a computer to automatically
restart shortly after startup. Removing the Recycler virus is a slow and time
consuming process.
Instructions
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1
A computer that is
affected with the Recycler virus needs to be restarted in Safe Mode. To do this
press the F8 key on the keyboard during the computer's boot up sequence. When
the menu option appears on the screen select Safe Mode and press Enter on the
keyboard.
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2
Run an anti-spyware
check on the system. This can be done by using programs such as Spy-Bot Search
and Destroy, Ad-Aware and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.
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3
Run a complete
virus scan on the system. There are many ant-virus programs available to choose
from including Norton and McAffee as well as a free program called AVG
Anti-Virus.
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4
Delete the
autorun.inf file from the removable storage device and the local hard drive. It
may be necessary to do a right click on the drive within My Computer and then
selecting Explore.
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5
Do a clean-up of
the system registry. A free program called RegSeeker is available that can scan
and remove bad, old as well as obsolete registry entries.
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6
Restart the system.
All traces of the virus should be gone and the system should be running
normally.
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