I already asked whitey for some help but understandably after all the work on the forums today me told me “my Brain is fried, but I will look into it”.
anyway I figured I would see if any of you guys can help too.
I did a virus scan and found the file C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SInstantM.exe as a virus. I tried to quarintine it, delete it and fix it and it won’t let me. I turned off the system restore settings to see if that helped but didn’t so they are back on now. What can I do to get rid of this virus and is this file needed to run any of my systems on the computer or is it created by the virus to keep me from removing it?
I really want to get this thing off here asap so any help will be greatly appriciated.
go into safe mode, n’ try and delete it though there… or I dont know what OS ur using but restart into dos and delete though there… another is… Hit Ctrl+Alt+Del once,kill every application on there except, “Explorer.exe”“Taskmgr.exe” then try to delete the file again. Best bets safe/dos tho…
it’s not a virus… it’s a service to launch ads. best bet is to do what dude said and kill your services, although you need a little more than taskmgr and explorer… keep the svchosts and lsass… but yeah… try that.
otherwise, right click and make sure it’s not read only and make sure you have proper permissions on it…