Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Computer Tutorial: Removing the IMGKULOT scripts or similar scripts

Nowadays, people tend to experiment of scripts that would possess the characteristics of a virus or a worm...So if you happen to notice that when you right click on your hard drive...you can see a the drive letter with a word like this or similar to these "(IMGKULOT)"...another characteristic of this script is when you open folders..usually folders are opened on the same window...but once your computer is infected or you have triggered to run this script, the moment you open a window it forces to open a new window...also, before i forget...you cannot open your harddrive unless you right click it and choose open or you go the address bar of windows explorer and type the drive directory of your harddrive...this script doesn't harm your computer but it will just irritate you because it affects or modify registry settings of your windows...

How to remove this? very simple...


1st step...
open "My Computer", open your harddrive directory...if you have two partitions make sure you open the other...

2nd step...
open "Windows" folder, but first make sure that you don't close the existing windows that you have opened..open the system32 folder as well...

3rd step...
enable folder option to view all hidden files...to do this..just click on Tools --> Folder Options...
once you have entered the folder options...click on the "View" tab...under the view tab look for the Hidden files and folders...once you found it, just choose the radio button option that says
"Show hidden files and folders"...

4th step...
now that all hidden files and folders are shown..you have to look for this follow files...

imgkulot.vbs
imgkulot.bat
imgkulot.reg
autorun.inf

Once you see these files on your drive's directory, just delete these files right away...sames as with the system32 folder, look for these files and delete them...make sure that you are finished with deleting all the mentioned files before closing the opened windows of your drive's directory and the system32 folder...

5th step...
Once you have deleted all the mentioned files from your drive's directory and from the system32 folder..just restart your computer...then that's it..

NOTES: always make sure that while deleting the files you do not close any of the folder directory that you have opened...just close it once you have deleted all the files from your computer..this scripts can be obtained commonly from usb drives...so before open flash drives of your computer..make sure you scan it always...

If you have any problem just post a comment below...good luck..

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