How to remove photos.zip.exe virus

If you happen to stumble this file photos.zip.exe, please be careful with cause it’s a virus.  It goes along with auto shutdown virus. Although it doesn’t do much yet but considered  malicious.

To manually remove photo.zip.exe virus, follow this steps:

1. After OS loading :

go to task manager by pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL then kill or end process photos.zip.exe virus with bar311.exe or pc-off.bat

2. Edit your registry entries:

type regedit at start/run

remove bar311.exe, pc-off.bat, photos.zip.exe by pressing Ctrl F and keyword

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
“Userinit”=”userinit.exe,bar311.exe”

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
“Hidden”=dword:00000001
“HideFileExt”=dword:00000000
“ShowSuperHidden”=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor]
“autorun”=”c:\Windows\pc-off.bat” -> delete the entry of autorun
3. Open your thumb drive or flash drive using the explorer. Manually delete autorun.inf and password_viewer.exe or bar311.exe

4. Then, open a notepad and type what is shown below as is…

@echo off
del /a /f c:\Windows\bar311.exe
del /a /f c:\Windows\password_viewer.exe
del /a /f c:\Windows\photos.zip.exe
del /a /f c:\Windows\pc-off.bat
pause

5. Then save this as remove.bat then click to run to it will remove annoying types of auto shutdown virus.


Leave a Reply