Steve's Clean Up Routine



Find out (if you can) when the infection happened.
If it was recent, do a system restore first then continue
with the rest of the steps.

1. Use Add/Remove Programs
Remove the junk programs like fake spyware & antivirus programs.
Also removing Norton and McAfee will double their speed.

2. Use System Restore
This restores the Windows registry to an uninfected state.
Go back two weeks before your computer had any problems.
The Registry is now clean but the files are still on the system in other areas.
You have to cleanup the remnants.

Start up in Safe Mode With Networking then update and run:

3. *SmitFraud Fix
I use option 2 which "cleans" and includes the registry and option 3 that "deletes trusted zones"

4. *CCleaner  and check all of the boxes.
I also run the CCleaner registry cleanup.

5. *Dial-A-Fix
I check all boxes except date/time

6. *Malwarebytes and *SuperAntiSpyware

7. Go into msconfig and look at the start up programs.
While in msconfig I hide the Microsoft services and remove the unnecessary services
Remove anything that is not necessary. Google if you are not sure.

Currently recommending: Norton 2009 (AV only - not the suite)


* Always run the latest version of your malware tools