How to Get Rid of Boo/Cidox.B

Complaints about Boo/Cidox.B:

Case one: Boo/Cidox.B Virus in boot sector, I have Windows 7 Premium. I tried 2 different anti-virus programs, anti-malware and anti-spy.Also, I tried scanning from safe mode with recovery turned off. Now I can't get recover to go back on.Is there a way to ONLY reinstall the boot files and not the entire windows as I would rather not have to re-install everything.Or any way to actually kill this virus? Anti virus catches it every time, but every restart it's still there......Please HELP!!

Case two: I have a good friend who dropped his laptop off for me to look at.  It was continually re-booting after showing a quick error message.The machine is an HP laptop running Windows XP started his machine in Safe mode and ran MalwareBytes.  It cleared out a few smaller items, but both MalwareBytes and Avira reported BOO/Cidox.B in the boot sector.Is there a way to remove/repair this without low-levelling the drive?  He has a bunch of photos and other business stuff on the laptop.He says that the problem occurred when he opened an email from "Costco" which I'm sure was a fake.I have searched the 'net and not found much info about this.Any help & suggestions would be appreciated.

How to remove Boo/Cidox.B effectively?

Boo/Cidox.B is a crafty virus that it generates items similar or even identical to system ones and roots deep in the system. To protect itself , Boo/Cidox.B mutates frequently to add to characteristics. To completely get rid of Boo/Cidox.B, you need to remove all its harmful components. Choose one of methods as below to get rid of Boo/Cidox.B permanently from your PC right now.

Method one: Manually Remove Boo/Cidox.B from your PC:

Step 1: Launch your PC into Safe Mode with Networking.

 Restart your computer. As your computer restarts but before Windows launches, tap "F8" key constantly. Use the arrow keys to highlight the "Safe Mode with Networking" option, and then press ENTER.

Step 2: Stop all processes that related to this computer virus

Press Window+R keys together. In the dialogue box that pop-up, type into taskmgr and press OK.  

Terminate all the malicious processes in the Window Task Manager.

Step3:Disable any suspicious startup items that are made by infections.

click start menu; type msconfig in the search bar; open System Configuration Utility; Disable all possible startup items generated.

Step4:Show all hidden files and clean all the malicious files about this virus

Click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it.

In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).

Clean all the malicious files about this computer virus as below.

%AppData%\<random>.exe

%CommonAppData%\<random>.exe

%temp%\<random>.exe

C:\Program Files\<random>

C:\Windows\Temp\<random>.exe

Step5:Remove all the vicious registry entries as follows:

Open Registry Editor by pressing Window+R keys together and typing into Regedit, then pressing Enter.

Find out all harmful registry entries of the virus and delete all of them.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "<random>" = "%AppData%\<random>.exe"

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "<random>" = "%AppData%\<random>.exe"

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Settings

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations "LowRiskFileTypes"=".zip;.rar;.nfo;.txt;.exe;.bat;.com;.cmd;.reg;.msi;.htm;.html;.gif;.bmp;.jpg;.avi;.mpg;.mpeg;.mov;.mp3;.m3u;.wav;"

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments "SaveZoneInformation"=1

Video on how to remove Trojan horse:

If the manual guide is kinda difficult for you, please feel free to download automatic removal tool SpyHunter to drive the self-invited guest away.

Method two: Automatically remove BOO/CIDOX.B with Spyhunter antivirus software

 

Step 1: click the icon below to download automatic removal tool SpyHunter

 

Step 2: follow the instructions to install SpyHunter

 

 

Step 3: run SpyHunter to automatically detect and remove BOO/CIDOX.B.

 

Summary: Due to the changeable characters of BOO/CIDOX.B, you cannot be too careful to distinguish the harmful files and registries from the system files and registries. If you have spend too much time in manual removing BOO/CIDOX.B and still not make any progress, you can download and install Spyhunter antivirus software here to remove BOO/CIDOX.B automatically for you.

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