Take a tissue and wipe it simple!! Works for me 🙂

Is it just me who thought op ejaculated on his keyboard or something?

If it were me, I’d use Darik’s Boot and Nuke to completely erase the drive before reinstalling Windows.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/

Physically Power off the PC by pressing and holding the power button, which will cut the powering circuit or unplug the PC.

Then get another computer and a flash drive.

Look up Windows 10 installation media.

Run it on the 2nd computer.

Install your USB Drive.

Install Windows 10 (from the media tool) on the flash drive. After it is done, close media tool, eject usb, and prepare to plug it into the main PC.

Know which key is the bios key for the main PC. Run off the USB Drive with Windows 10 bootable installation and reinstall Windows. This will 100% delete everything on the main hard drive (your storage drive) and reinstall Windows.

IF - Last Resort: You reinstalled and still have issues. THEN: Power off PC and physically remove storage drive and replace it with a new storage drive like an SSD. Repeat the same Windows 10 installation process from there with the USB Drive.

Good Luck!

I know enough to be able to run a pen drive windows reinstall, but how do I wipe the PC if control has completely been taken from me?

You boot to the usb drive, and when asked what kind of install you want, select custom, from there delete all partitions, leaving only unallocated space, and install windows normally

Don’t wipe it. Remove the drive. Replace the drive with a new Virgin drive. They’re not expensive. Install windows. Physically destroy the old drive.

Unplug the ethernet or turn of networking while you reset.

You’d have to stick windows on a usb, boot to that from bios and then delete all the partitions and reinstall windows. Alternatively you could just bin the drive off and put a new one in if you’re starting from fresh, good excuse for an upgrade maybe

Local I.T shop guy here.

Take it to a local IT shop if you want your data back and they can nuke it for you, probably without a Windows reinstall.

If you wanna try something yourself, usually when you loose control of a PC when it comes on that means the attacker has remote access to the PC and just reconnected each time you turn it on.

Unplug the ethernet cable or unplug your WiFi device to kill network then you can go into Apps and remove any remote support software. (Connectwise, Anydesk, Teamview, Bomgar, etc)

Once you do that open a run prompt with Windows Key + R and type %appdata% and press enter this will take you into the hidden user appdata folder. From here travel up one folder level and go into the “local” folder. Look for any folders named similar to the remote support app you removed (or just named after any remote access app) and delete the whole folder.

Then go into the “temp” folder nuke it as well. You may not be able to delete quiet everything and thats okay.

Good luck and may Gate’s smile upon you.

Nuke and zero fill drive, reinstall windows. Yes, this is a paranoia response.

I’ve been using computers for 15 years, and it just boggles my mind how peoples’ systems get bogged up with bloatware and viruses. It has never happened to me, not even a little. Use an adblock, and don’t click on stupid links. Is it really, I mean REALLY that hard?? I would think after this long, it would just be standard practice for everyone using a computer. Every time these posts come up, it’s just someone with the technologial literacy of a pine cone. I’m gonna go down like hell for this, I know, but geez the amount of times this happens is just too damn high. Smarten up, people.

Just get a bootable usb or cd and wipe it clean during tge format part

Create a Bootable USB Drive and boot from it. Start Windows Installation and format your HDD.

Ricky, are you smoking foot hash again?

Fun the USB drive and it won’t even load the OS instance containing the viruses and then just do a fresh install.