Not that long ago, I posted a post (LOL) about Anti-virus software and “Guest What!?”, just two days ago, I discovered that my so called $2000 worth custom made desktop computer was vulnerable to Autorun Virus.

Taken from my iPhone

It’s hard to believe that I had to once again, figure out how to actually remove the virus manually since Avira Antivirus just… suck. I did some research online on Antivirus software that could let me remove these nasty ‘high-risk’ viruses and turns out there is none.

The really frustrating fact about Autorun viruses is its capability of taking control of your computer operating system (or simply Windows) What it normally does is disabling user access to Task Manager, Command Prompt and other administrative tools. Even an advance computer user will have a hard time removing the virus manually. Consequently ‘manual virus removal’ is not an option for a regular user.

However there is a way to this ‘semi-automatically‘. There are two Antivirus Solutions that are capable of removing Autorun Viruses and they are ‘Kaspersky & Bitdefender’. They are both paid Antivirus software, but go ahead and just grab the 30 day trial license, it will work just fine (at least for 30 days).

Once you’ve got rid of the Autorun Viruses, do not get too excited yet because it is not over. What you’ll have to do next is reactivate your administrative tools that were deactivated by the nasty pain-in-the-neck virus.

To do that, in Windows 7:

• click Run or simply type in Run and press enter in the Windows start menu.
• Type in GPEdit.msc and press enter
• Navigate to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > System
• In the settings, locate the ‘Prevent Access to Registry Editing Tools’ and select the option ‘Not Configured’ or ‘Disabled’

same thing goes to Task Manager, locate the options for Task Manager and repeat the same process.