How to Delete/Remove Virus Without Antivirus Within Minutes.

Can I remove a virus without antivirus software?

"I found so many antivirus programs that advertised to be free download but they're really not! They all ask for a payment after scanning malware and virus in order to kill them. Now I know exactly that my computer is infected, but the antivirus software is so expensive and I can't afford that. Can I remove virus without antivirus??? Please help!"

 the answer is so simple Yes, you can definitely remove virus without antivirus. Before purchasing antivirus software, make the first attempt to use cmd to remove virus from any computer, laptop, external hard drive, pen drive or USB stick in Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, XP or Vista!

How to remove virus from PC/laptop without antivirus using cmd?

Windows Command Prompt is free to access, and with extremely powerful functions in resolving various computer and system problems, including help find, clear, delete and remove all types of virus or shortcut virus that deletes computer files, corrupts system configuration or deteriorates system performance. It's the perfect virus removal solution that substitutes online commercial antivirus tools.

The attrib command is what you're going to use for virus cleanup. Follow the detailed guide below.

Step 1. In search box in Windows 10, for example, type cmd. You'll get the best match called Command Prompt. Right click on Command Prompt and choose Run as administrator.

Step 2. On the Command Prompt, type the drive letter of your hard drive partition in computer or USB flash drive that is affected by virus and hit Enter. (D: for example.)

Step 3. Type attrib and press Enter. You'll see autorun.inf virus listed.

Step 4. To remove virus using CMD, type into your command prompt attrib -r -a -s -h *.* and press Enter. This will remove the Read Only, Archive, System and hidden file attribute from all the files. (*.* for all the files with all different types of file extensions).

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Wait, it's not the end yet! Using cmd to remove virus is not 100% guaranteed, neither does any other antivirus software, including the renowned ones such as McAfee, Norton, Kaspersky, Avast, etc. So, no matter which way you choose to kill the virus in the end, we think an extra help is necessary, which is free data recovery software.

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Step 1. Select the disk storage location where you lost data and click "Scan".

Step 2. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard will start a quick scan first. After the quick scan completes, a deep scan will automatically launch in order to find more files.

Step 3. Choose the file(s) you want to recover by file types from the scanning results. Click "Recover" button to recover the selected files. You'd better choose a different location instead of the original hard drive to avoid data overwriting.