Hi guys,
My computer is infected by a virus, that is eating up all my empty hard disk space. It is very surprising that my Antivirus application is not able to remove this virus.Â
The virus is detected, but cannot be removed. This virus is called the newfolder.exe virus
I did some research online, as to how to remove this virus since my Antivirus software cannot remove it.Â
I found some tools to remove it automatically, but I think that I am doing something wrong because it is not being removed.
Can someone help me with this or is there some way to remove this virus manually?
Print screen of virus infection below:
Virus Alert
Norton Antivirus has detected and removed a virus from your computer.
Object Name: I:New Folder.exe
Virus Name: Trojan.Dropper
Action Taken: The file was automatically deleted.
OK
Manual removal of newfolder.exe virus
>Go to start/search/all files and folders and in the "All or part of the file name" section, type "newfolder.exe"
>After finishing the search process,hover over the "In Folder" of newfolder.exe, highlight the file and copy/paste the path into address bar.
>Save the file's path on your clipboard.
>Use Windows Task Manager to Remove newfolder.exe Processes.
>To open the Windows Task Manager, use the combination of CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC.
>Click on the "Image Name" button to search for "newfolder.exe" process by name.
>Select the "newfolder.exe" process and click on the "End Process" button to kill it.
If it doesn't work, please follow these steps:
>Go to Start > Run > cmd and then press the "OK" button.
>Type in "dir /A name_of_the_folder" (for example, C:Spyware-folder), which will display the folder's content even the hidden files.
>To change directory, type in "cd name_of_the_folder".
>Once you have the file you're looking for type in del "name_of_the_file".
>Once you have the file you're looking for type in del "name_of_the_file".
>Select the "newfolder.exe" process and click on the "End Process" button to kill it.
Hope this will work.
Manual removal of newfolder.exe virus
This problem is very common now a days. Â Here are three best ways to solve the problem:
1. This way is also called totally cut out the supply of the line
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Search for the file AUTORUN.inf, this file is read only file. When you find the file, right click on the file and go to the properties of the file, then uncheck the box of read only option.
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Then open the file in notepad and remove all the written data from file and save the file.
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After doing this change the file as read only.
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Then click on Run and type msconfig and press ok.
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Then go to the tab of Startup and find out regsvr and uncheck the box and click ok
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Then click on the exit but do not restart the computer. Â Go to the Control Panel and click on schedule task and delete all the tasks.
2. The other method of removing this virus is:-
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Click on Start and then click on Run and type gpedit.msc and click ok
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Then click on the user configuration and then administrator templates and then click on System.
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Then find out PREVENT ACCESS TO REGISTRY EDITING TOOLS and change it enable to disable.
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After this you can access to the registry.
3. The way is:-
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Click on the start button and then click on the Search button
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Check the files and folders and types .exe in the search box.
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At once you find out all the newfolder delete them and the newfolder by pressing shift+delete.
Now your computer will be washed from newfolder.exe virus.
THANK YOU
Manual removal of newfolder.exe virus
This same new folder.exe virus was in my PC.  I used many ways to remove this virus.  Lots of ways are not working correctly. But I finally got the best way of deleting new folder.exe virus.  Â
Lets start
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Open Windows Task Scheduler or go to Control Panel→ Scheduled Tasks and remove any suspicious task.
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Click on Start → Run and type → 'msconfig'.  In the Start Up tab, find entries like "newfolder.exe" and uncheck them.
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Open Task Manager. In the Process tab, delete any process with the name of newfolder.exe.
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Open registry by typing 'regedit' in the run command box.
Please take a back up of the registry before proceeding. Now search for "newfolder.exe". Â If you find any entries, delete them. Please delete the entries having the exact name as "newfolder.exe" and not anything else.
If that is appended with other entries, delete its occurrence only and not the whole thing.
Restart the computer.
Thanks
