How to Remove a Bagle Virus

The Bagle virus could leave your system open to infection.

The Bagle virus is a malicious file that infects your computer and can allow "backdoor" access to your computer system. It is a typical trojan virus in that sense and it shares the threats of other trojans--namely allowing third parties to control your system or even access your personal files. To manually delete all traces of the Bagle virus, you'll need to put your computer in Safe Mode and modify your registry.

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Restart your system into the Safe Mode by pressing the "F8" key as soon as the Windows start text is displayed, and then choose "Safe Mode."

2. Navigate to your Windows system directory by typing in "C:\Windows\System" or "C:\Winnt\System32" into the Search directory in the "Start" menu. Delete the following files: "go54o.exe," "i1ru54n4.exe," "ii5nj4.exe" and "i1ru54n4.exeopen."

3. Click on the "Start" menu and click on "Run." Type "Regedit" into the "Run" dialogue box and click on "OK" to launch your system's Registry Editor.

4. Right-click and "Delete" the "rate.exe" value from "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" in the registry.

5. Find and delete "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\winword" registry key in your system registry.

6. Restart your system in the regular mode.

References

• McAfee: W32/Bagle.g@MM