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Off topic what's the best way to remove virus's

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  • 10-03-2012 10:51pm
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    war2k10
    Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭


    Hi i want to find out how to remove virus's ??


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    _AVALANCHE_
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    Read through these threads.

    Edit: You have a thread there.

    What exactly do you want to know?


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    war2k10
    Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭war2k10


    I just want to find out the best way to remove all types of virus's


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    Spacedog
    Registered Users Posts: 1,775 ✭✭✭Spacedog


    -Backup your data (don't forget data inside programs like e-mail, calendar, favorite sites, savegames, desktop, app data etc)
    -Backup your network driver and internet settings
    -Format your computer
    -Partition your hard drive like so...
    -C: First 40GB
    -D: all remaining space
    -Reinstall Windows
    -Reinstall Drivers
    -Reinstall Office
    -Reinstall common apps (use ninite.com installer to save some time here)
    -Reinstall other apps (exclude apps that want to install crap on your machine and toolbars in your browser)
    -Install Firefox and use the 'adblock plus' plugin in 'add-ons'
    -Configure control panel to your preferences.
    -Apply all updates and patches from Windows Update (several reboots needed)
    -Put your data on the D: Drive, independent of your programs.
    -Most importantly: Before you start using your PC: Make an image of your new perfect C: drive using a partition imaging tool on a boot CD, like ghost or partimage, and store the image file(s) on the D: drive.


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    Serephucus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,180 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    I'm pretty sure he's just trolling...


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    Dublin_Gunner
    Registered Users Posts: 7,692 ✭✭✭Dublin_Gunner


    Serephucus wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure he's just trolling...


    The OP or spacedog??

    Because 40GB is NOT enough for an OS drive!


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    Serephucus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,180 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    God no, the OP.

    /off-topic: 40GB is plenty for an OS drive. Up until last week, for two years I'd been using a 32GB SSD as my boot drive, and I still has 5GB free.


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    Dublin_Gunner
    Registered Users Posts: 7,692 ✭✭✭Dublin_Gunner


    Serephucus wrote: »
    God no, the OP.

    /off-topic: 40GB is plenty for an OS drive. Up until last week, for two years I'd been using a 32GB SSD as my boot drive, and I still has 5GB free.


    You're obviously not loading your drivers etc in there then?


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    deconduo
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    Dublin_Gunner wrote: »
    The OP or spacedog??

    Because 40GB is NOT enough for an OS drive!

    I've got Windows 7 on my 28GB SSD, and it has 10GB free.


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    crazygeryy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭crazygeryy


    deconduo wrote: »
    I've got Windows 7 on my 28GB SSD, and it has 10GB free.

    so does that mean buying a 120 gb ssd for your os is overkill?


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    Dublin_Gunner
    Registered Users Posts: 7,692 ✭✭✭Dublin_Gunner


    deconduo wrote: »
    I've got Windows 7 on my 28GB SSD, and it has 10GB free.


    I take it with no drivers or swap file on the same drive? Actually 18GB for a full Win 7 install seems suspiciously small.


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    Encrypted Pigeon
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    war2k10 wrote: »
    I just want to find out the best way to remove all types of virus's

    Fire.


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    Serephucus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,180 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    OS, drivers (and driver-related applications), media players, broswers, and any game files that happened to be dumped in My Documents. Plenty of space for all that.


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    deconduo
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 4,281 Mod ✭✭✭✭deconduo


    Dublin_Gunner wrote: »
    I take it with no drivers or swap file on the same drive? Actually 18GB for a full Win 7 install seems suspiciously small.

    No swap or hibernation, all the drivers and everything else though. Also Firefox, Rainmeter, Notepad++, GIMP, and a couple of other apps.


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    Dublin_Gunner
    Registered Users Posts: 7,692 ✭✭✭Dublin_Gunner


    Serephucus wrote: »
    OS, drivers (and driver-related applications), media players, broswers, and any game files that happened to be dumped in My Documents. Plenty of space for all that.
    deconduo wrote: »
    No swap or hibernation, all the drivers and everything else though. Also Firefox, Rainmeter, Notepad++, GIMP, and a couple of other apps.


    What version of 7?


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    deconduo
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    Dublin_Gunner wrote: »
    What version of 7?

    64-bit Pro


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    Serephucus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,180 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    Ultimate 64. As deconduo said though, I've my pagefile, system restore, and hibernation disabled. I probably saved about 15GB doing that.


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    Spacedog
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    40GB is plenty for an OS and swap file, and small enough to make several image backups, move program files and users folders to point to D: drive

    that said I wrote this guide a while back and people have more storage space. I'm sure even dublin gunner can't fit his entire steam directory on a single SSD?

    the point is the method is a little time consuming at the start, but it's a small price to pay for the time saved and the ability to control a perfect clean OS at all times.


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    Dublin_Gunner
    Registered Users Posts: 7,692 ✭✭✭Dublin_Gunner


    Spacedog wrote: »
    40GB is plenty for an OS and swap file, and small enough to make several image backups, move program files and users folders to point to D: drive

    that said I wrote this guide a while back and people have more storage space. I'm sure even dublin gunner can't fit his entire steam directory on a single SSD?

    the point is the method is a little time consuming at the start, but it's a small price to pay for the time saved and the ability to control a perfect clean OS at all times.


    I've said 60GB myself for win 7 x64 - purely based on my own experience, and nothing scientific about it at all.

    This would have included space for swap files, system restore, drivers, probably a load of crap that saves itself to user files and folders etc as well, and not being too careful where certain files etc were going.

    For instance - my users and program files take up 25.5GB - out of a total of 70GB used space on my OS drive, so there's definitely at least 25.5GB of space I could avoid using on my OS drive.

    Obviously I, and anyeone that knows what they're doing can keep it a lot leaner, but in general I've told average users 60GB minimum - you guys think that's reasonable?


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