How To Remove (almost) Any Virus From Your PC

[@bahamut256]

I've personally found the fastest way to remove malware is to take the hard drive off the client and put a .308 round into it. I call this the Old Yeller solution.

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

With the price of ammo these days?

[@aleks169]

@@ChucksSEADnDEAD good point 🤣

[@flaviog.7628]

@@aleks169 Good (hollow) point

[@democrack113]

Sledgehammer it, cost effective.

[@r0e404]

it's insane how yt prompted me to rate this comment on how clean it was

[@electrified0]

Keep in mind, if you back up "everything", you might also be backing up malware so be conscious of that.

[@Predated2]

On one side, yes, on the otherside, it would also give you a clue where the infection is coming from. If I back up my PC and reinstalling my PC doesnt get rid of it, then the oddity is in the files, making it easier to find.

[@jpteknoman]

this is why you need alternate backups. you make backup 1 today and then backup 2 in a month and then update backup 1 the next month and so on. if one ends up being corrupted you can use the other that was made earlier

[@htf5555]

fuck what do i do then. just adopt a buddhist mindset and detach myself from my digital possessions?

[@millanferende6723]

@@jpteknoman Won't some malware simply auto-detect backups and insert themselves into it? I've seen some pretty crazy stuff in my days

[@abordwaylong1339]

@@htf5555 back up important information, but don’t back up random shit

[@0hate9]

ngl I was expecting this to be a guide on switching to linux

[@beetx5]

gets the normies by doing a windows guide and when they watch his other videos they switch to linux, 4d chess.

[@iskamag]

openbsd*

[@sylvstuffs]

@@beetx5 it worked on me it'll work on everyone else

[@kmmmsyr9883]

@@MatthewsPersonal lol. what's with these bots btw

[@RedSntDK]

Same! Or perhaps Glary Utilities or something more mainstream.

[@joeshmoe000]

Never was a professional admin, but I used to always disinfect PCs manually. It's not that hard. There's specific things to check: Autoruns (by sysinternals), ProcessXP, Temp folders, User data, Startup folder, and scheduled tasks. Like 90% will be removed from that. The other 10% could be a DLL injection which requires a little more looking in the DLL/handles section of ProcessXP.

[@RationalFunction]

Or just reinstall, and next time put all your data on a D partition.

[@fishyc43sar]

Idk I just put the device on fire instead, can never go wrong with a burning computer

[@autohmae]

This method still works, but the problem is in the long run this won't keep being the method, it's likely newer malware coming out is going to infect firmware as well.

[@Kilzu1]

@@autohmae True but that wouldn't really happen to most computers out in the world (only servers and ones which are on 24/7). Mostly you won't even get anything just by not downloading suspicious files and using little bit of common sense when people send you e-mail asking to click links and such. Reason why most private individuals are safe, is because their computers don't contain anything worth stealing (most hackers who infect random systems with ransomware are aware, that people most likely will just wipe the drive). That's why they more likely aim to infect systems (like government magistrate, companies with databases containing confidential data etc), which people can't just wipe even if they want to. Yes you might not want to loose whatever files are stored to your computer, but they are worth less than pile of cow shit, compared to what single web store server might contain.

[@autohmae]

@@Kilzu1 you might be right that servers are a bigger target. Also NAS, routers, etc. I really hope it will never become common place.

[@75ryanh]

This was actually cool and I ran it myself. Luckily no Malware. Thanks again for the amazing tips

[@toobig7150]

Does it automatically uninstall all the apps and stuff it uses to check your system? I hate to have stuff running in the background

[@acyrosriven]

@@toobig7150 Yes, he mentioned at the Around 11:00 mark that it removes all the things it used to scan again

[@noname-zt2zk]

The malware on my computer was just some Chinese spyware and chrome

[@stonecroissant]

This made me remember the time when my friends social engineered me into installing a trojan and then hacked my game accounts

[@vveerrxx]

That’s actually kinda mean 😂

[@ghoulbuster1]

Call the FBI they have a new member

[@MrPoopsnorkle]

Soooo friends might not be the correct word💀

[@dontask8585]

That's fucked

[@Frog_Scooper]

@our hero Stop with the coconut thing

[@whoiswad]

Found this years ago. Resurfaced the other night when I was actually facing a virus crisis. Absolutely fantastic stuff. Updates frequently. Great to run your own anti virus and this every once and a while.

[@FunctionGermany]

for smaller annoyances (PUP), the malwarebytes adwcleaner was great in the past. might be a good solution for some people because it takes less time to run.

[@trent1776]

I love this software, helped me get rid of a very persistent rootkit

[@stullex_]

Could I benefit from Tron? I already run adwcleaner

[@FunctionGermany]

@@stullex_ yes, if adwcleaner didn't get everything

[@Paco1337]

I used it waaaay before malwarebytes acquired it and it helped me removing some Chinese adware with spamming shit in browser

[@Yamigo1000]

Reading the change log, it looks to run adwcleaner in the 9th stage; the Manuel process

[@IC-23]

I'm really glad you made this, while it may not be relevant to most of your viewers it will help some less tech savvy person down the line later.

[@slusheewolf2143]

I've been working on PCs for a long time and never knew about this. No, I don't have malware on my machine, but I still wanna scan with TRON because it'll ease any doubts I have. I have a paranoia that my anti-virus (Win Defender) doesn't catch everything.

[@poopfart300]

same

[@danyalfarkhan3289]

You ain't the only one, my dude. The only way to ease your doubts is to clean install Windows since it actually is the 100% guaranteed way to remove any malware.

[@flaviog.7628]

@@danyalfarkhan3289 yeah except for WINDOWS lmao

[@taggie2457]

@@daparks7055Would a format of the drive from a CMD prompt inside a windows installation be enough to fully purge anything on the drive? I normally bring up the DISKPART commands to clean/format the drive then proceed with the installation; with the OS being a clean install on a usb drive.

[@daparks7055]

@@taggie2457 that in theory should work fine yes

[@Frog_Scooper]

A Linux guide would be cool, especially considering your channel essentially revolves around Gentoo/other linuxes. Even though Linux is a lot more resistant to viruses and malware, it's always good to be ready. Keep making great videos please

[@JeezMayne]

He already got tons of tutorials like that on his channel

[@sandert8901]

Maybe also a guide for android would be cool ?

[@AuroraAce.]

@@JeezMayne he's talking about removing malware in Linux specifically

[@sergsergesrgergseg]

it's linux just reinstall

[@AuroraAce.]

@@sergsergesrgergseg that would work for windows too but that's more of a last resort.

[@zioping]

I remember running tronscript and I agree it is really a good software to remove possible viruses and debloats your pc. But it did remove my predator sense software thinking it was another bloatware. Other than that it's pretty cool and I've been doing it for over a year now

[@Jarczenko]

Yup also deleted my asus softwares they suck but I need them to e.g switching to internal graphic card to save energy

[@zioping]

@@Jarczenko same. I needed it to control fan speed and stuff. Tough luck. But it's pretty chill tho.

[@Jarczenko]

@@zioping yup just redownload not a big problem

[@xCwieCHRISx]

@@Jarczenko Never heard of someone switching to internal gpu to save energy lol.

[@Jarczenko]

@@xCwieCHRISx So my RTX3060 should be working all the time and from ~8 hours of battery life It should be 3-4 hours? No, thanks.

[@RandomRine]

Cool knowing about the different antiviruses detecting different stuff. Been doing regular scans using windows defender since I got my pc. Used this & sophos detected a virus that's been on my pc for a year now Though it might have been a false positive because when I looked up the name of the virus it was a ransomware but I've been using the infected program for a year without it getting triggered

[@kuromiLayfe]

Mcafee/malwarebytes/kaspersky and sophos and a whole bunch of others that have also paid versions are known to falsely say viruses are found to scare users into buying their packages .. (sophos and malwarebytes have even been found to install hidden services that slow down your system over time ). Scripts like this can also contain keyloggers hidden behind the (downloading program xxxx texts (as it sending your private info and passwords to their clients)

[@derpoltergeist8265]

And? Do you have any updates on the story?

[@rocketradioket1398]

maybe its a botnet waiting for the instructions of the botmaster so keep an eye

[@ChArLie360115]

Defo botnetted. Using you for farming boi

[@worldwarwitt2760]

i remember defrag on win 95. it had a little animation that showed you the health of your drive.

[@DefineOutside]

Finally, it's here

[@boobgoogler]

It isn’t here.

[@just.nobody]

Where is it?

[@jimdeadlock]

it's over there

[@just.nobody]

Over there, it is.

[@ikhnas666]

Was having issue with slow performance for a year. Already tried looking for solutions many times, it didn't work. Been having thoughts about reinstalling windows for the past 2 months, but I still need my laptop until August and I don't really have the time to reinstall everything. Found this video by chance after watching a video about computer virus sent by a friend. (Edit: actually I was curious because the thumbnail looks interesting with pepe hammer and windows anime character, so I clicked it.) Ran this Tron program a few days ago after reading the instructions, Q/A, and many things written in the reddit and github. Found two trojans in System32/Drivers/etc. It infected the "hosts" file apparently. Was found by Malwarebytes, cured it. Only after that windows detected the trojan too. It was funny because I already did a full scan three times before with Windows' Antivirus, but only after running Tron it actually detected them. My laptop is currently running really smooth just like how I remember it back then. It doesn't have massive FPS drop anymore in game, it doesn't stutter nor freezing anymore, no more delay clicking Restart when the laptop slows down after a few game sessions. Thank you, really, to the one who made the video and the people involved in Tron.

[@lordwafflesthegreat]

11:00 Many people still keep HDDs in their desktop systems for bulk storage on the cheap. Many European countries have very high tech taxes so people use HDDs for cheap media storage, torrents and some games.

[@martins.4240]

Can confirm. I have an SSD for the boot-drive, but also for the newer/more demanding games. My HDD store all the rest (older games, videos and music etc.)

[@zogudev]

In turkey having SSD is a luxury

[@doctoradventure413]

Thanks, I had a virus that I couldn't get rid of for the longest time but this seems to have actually gotten rid of it.

[@drm.himself]

I mean, if you just check the Startup and processes regularly you'll catch most viruses

[@DanteLikesRock]

@@drm.himself explain how to do that please?

[@drm.himself]

@@DanteLikesRock For a virus to run on your computer and do malicious activity, it NEEDS to be on the Task Manager processes tab, as every single thing running on your computer must be there. What I recommend you do, is write down the processes that are running when you start your computer, and if something's added, check it out and see what it actually is. Some viruses disguise themselves as real processes, for example: "windowsupdate" or "windowsdefender" or some other normal process, which is why you should write them down.

[@smokescreen2146]

@@drm.himself What if virus is already on start up?

[@drm.himself]

@@smokescreen2146 ? What? You don't have a virus from fresh installation, otherwise you already messed up horribly. Run malwarebytes, then delete it.

[@enricofermi3471]

Wow, a real anti-malware? Usually these kinds of downloadable "antivirus" software is what infects your PC with adware or even actual serious viruses. Wouldn't even touch this tron stuff with a ten-foot pole if not for this video.

[@Gogglesofkrome]

Although I agree with you entirely, it's also an interesting perspective on how easy it is to socially engineer a person's perspective on something, so long as the information comes from someone they trust, rather than whether or not they find its logic sound (though I might be making an identical mistake and making my own baseless assumptions upon you, assuming something that's just not true)

[@gustavusadolphus4344]

I mean we have to make decisions based on trust all the time as humans. We just don't have the time or brain power to independently verify everything we come across. I mean you trust the people who put the best by date on your milk aren't wrong and you trust the engineers that built the bridge you cross for your daily commute. It's a natural thing we all do. When we find that someone is reliable we tend to keep thinking they are until they prove otherwise. It's just easier to live that way

[@AbandonedVoid]

@@gustavusadolphus4344 Yes, and this is how Machiavellians exploit people. They behave identical to someone that is trustworthy up until the moment they can betray you for personal gain. It's like the social engineering version of exit scamming. The risks can be mitigated, though.

[@vveerrxx]

I remember having a “mature” virus on my Asus EEE laptop yeeeears ago. Maybe 10 years ago? and at that age instead of asking parents to fix it I just dismantled it. 🤣

[@HatTrex]

Good friends

[@aesap_]

This happened to me when I was trying to install a pokemon emulator from a youtube tutorial when I was like 10 lmao

[@Napert]

the "The EeePeeCee"?

[@desktorp]

@@Napert more like the ReeeeePeeCee

[@duckmeat4674]

@@Napert man I almost missed those things. The trackpads were horrible, but I had maybe 500 hours playing RCT on them since it was the only thing that could run on it

[@Allanlbrr]

Much appreciated ! Your guides are always on top.

[@markusTegelane]

"Missing operand." someone screwed up the batch script

[@pwn-it]

Happened to me today. Uninstalled Opera and the problem went away.

[@hectorcanizales5900]

@@pwn-it is that a joke ?

[@hectorcanizales5900]

@Depp oh my god what's f[[[*iiing here !? just tell meeee!!! %s whatevers just looking to break this bot guyajahahahaha %d %s. rm -rf. ; ; ; ; exit 1; ahahaja s sms d d dd s

[@pwn-it]

@@hectorcanizales5900 I installed Opera and wanted to uninstall it because it wasn't working properly and so i did, but it ended up messing things up. It messed up my sources file(s) so whenever i tried installing or updating something it would throw the "missing operand: readlink" error at me. All i had to do to fix this issue was uninstalling and removing everything related to Opera (including its repositories).

[@hectorcanizales5900]

@@pwn-it hmmm, never heard of a web browser causing that much trouble!

[@Cneq]

I'm honestly surprised I've never actually gotten a virus in my entire life lmao I'm 23 and have been using computers since I was 8 [and increasingly went to virus prone places at age 11-16 due to pirating software, pirating games, downloading minecraft hacked clients to grief and everything in between].

[@tesmat1243]

Countless are the times I prayed not to get a virus from sketchy websites, I was lucky my friend however got his pc turned into a mining rig lol

[@Jarczenko]

you could get virus and not know about it and be part of a big botnet

[@EragonShadeslayer]

You probably got a bunch of viruses, but the ones that you got aren’t obvious

[@christianmingle3394]

I’ve never understood griefers, what enjoyment do you get from ruining others hard work?

[@scarm_rune]

@@christianmingle3394 its justified if its a platform/game that does nothing good to a human/is a money vacuum designed to hook you on for hours at a time

[@Napert]

i remember when my dad used to run combofix on a xp machine whenever 7 new toolbars appeared after pirating some sketchy stuff or when i wanted to play minecraft for free sh*t got real real fast, everything had to be closed and everyone was forbidden from even thinking about touching the pc in fear that something would go catastrophically wrong

[@robertcoyle9071]

another day, another new toolbar. my god was that annoying.

[@afickinger]

This video also reminded me of Combofix

[@gayusschwulius8490]

Please don't say: "You have to restore from backup if your data is encrypted by ransomware!" That statement is not always true. For much ransomware, there are decryptors out there which can decrypt lost data. If a noob watched your video, there would be a decent chance of them actually paying the ransom based on that statement alone.

[@plapbandit]

And remember kids, paying off Ransomware demands are the no.1 guaranteed fastest way to summon the IRS, or your money back!

[@gayusschwulius8490]

@@plapbandit Now that I think about it, that would actually be a genius way to save taxes if you run a company :D

[@fanban2926]

True but still it's very true in many cases

[@sirramic202]

@@gayusschwulius8490 What did he say? Looks like the glowies got him.

[@sanjacobs6261]

How do you get "You have to pay the ransom to get back your data" from "You have to restore from backup"?

[@wingusdingus9447]

I found malwarebytes right about when it came out. Back in the day Cnet USED to be somewhere you could download free software from. I was really young and liked installing anything I could find useful. Then my browser started getting hijacked if I didn't look for tiny boxes to check or uncheck. Then I learned don't install anything to Windows unless you NEED to and you know that the program and the source is verified safe I'm semi computer literate. I had to fix everyone's PCs back in the day. I used to sit at people's grandma's houses while I was nuking their OS and reinstalling. I'd be making two accounts so they weren't logging in as admin, downloading every saftey software I could find at the time to prevent me from having to come back and crash coursing them on avoiding viruses. I still had to come back to a lot of PCs to do it again. Old people liked to chat on AOL and in the early 2000s-2010. Scammers were there cuz they knew

[@thefrannypanny]

Had to laugh at the part of the video where you showed the Professional who was making new viruses! That was a very clever entertaining way to show it happening! Super Cute

[@cxob2134]

What also works very well is to do the scary hacker thing, according to windows normies and boot into a linux usb drive to bypass all the windows permissions. Its hilarious how many people looked at me in disbelieve as i just grab a back up from their files as they where password protected. But your Windows Login PW does not equal Encryption. Then you just go through the common spots for suspect files and programs to be and delete the stuff. Works better with bloatware and adware. But most people have this bugging them down anyways. The very fancy stuff is hard to find manually but there are other tools for that. The most efficient will always be to nuke the os and restore form backup.

[@unsettledroell]

That is why you encrypt your harddisks!

[@xehP]

bros deff talking about gen pop and not normies, even normies know this lmao

[@pbjandahighfive]

@@xehP you obviously don't understand what a normie is if you think there is any difference between someone of the general population and normie.

[@xehP]

@@mr.serious707 as far as I'm aware normies are people like myself that use computers but aren't geeks, and then you have the typical person that only uses one for entertainment purposes i.e TV shows, music, general browsing. or as a work computer.

[@unsettledroell]

@@xehP I bet Microsoft will soon encrypt disks standard. Saving the key in your Microsoft account or similar.

[@MrYAMAHA32177]

This worked like a charm, thanks so much Mental Outlaw

[@invertexyz]

11:00 I believe from Windows 10 (or maybe 7?) Automatic defragging when system is idle was also implemented for HDDs, so yeah it has become mostly unneeded as a manual task these days.

[@Arkay24]

Still have W7, haven't seen an autodefragger

[@invertexyz]

@@Arkay24 it's not something that pops up, it runs in the background. It's in your Task Scheduler as a task that runs when the computer has been idle for a bit, and stops when it's no longer idle.

[@RuthlessNoise]

I appreciate all you do for us.

[@calvindang7291]

I think defrag is still in common use; I was taught about it in one of my computer science classes (as an example of why making a good memory manager is hard).

[@Chillingworth]

I hate to break it to you, but what they teach in CS classes is not in alignment with modern standards a very large proportion of the time. Take it all with a grain of salt and do your own research outside of college if you want to set yourself apart at all.

[@CHAP_SEC]

defrag is only for HDD not SSD. And defrag is only really applicable to drives that write and delete A LOT. So only run it on a HDD home PC every 12 months or so. But most devices run SSD now.

[@CHAP_SEC]

Though there is trimming on SSD which is kinda like defrag, but I don't think it applies to a home user. More for high write and delete servers

[@xXx_Regulus_xXx]

@@CHAP_SEC in windows at least they've switched to calling it optimization as a catch-all, the system schedules drives to be defragged/trimmed as appropriate for the hardware once a month by default. Making this an automated process means end users won't necessarily know it exists

[@zenchess]

I know people that would defrag constantly like it was this magical thing

[@kote315]

Okay, I've been watching you for a long time and trust you. But in general, downloading some scripts that promise to solve all problems with the computer, using links from videos of some anonymous dudes on KZbin, is a VERY bad idea ...

[@mobgripchamanrogue]

Hi dude Just here to say that it's pretty safe TronScript is just a big batch file that run antimalware script run it in a vm before hand if you are hesitant it ll be fine 👍

[@mobgripchamanrogue]

Your statement still stand btw, dont trust anyone you don't know

[@kote315]

@@mobgripchamanrogue Some time ago I ran into this problem myself. I made a video about installing a driver or something, and some scammers re-uploaded it about 50 times from different (most likely stolen) accounts with malicious links in the description.

[@Randorandom232]

@@mobgripchamanrogue how does it compare to malware bytes?

[@MorgAntix]

Very useful!! thank you!

[@zivansaranic9440]

thank you so much for this, every other recommendation is usually very basic

[@zerosick]

Tron, I've been using it for years, my go to software when my PC is acting up.

[@friendofp.24]

Has it ever removed innocent files of yours? This looks super useful but I really don't want any major false flags.

[@Kevin.BTCChina]

@@friendofp.24 Havent had that issue myself

[@zerohero5753]

@@friendofp.24 Just make a backup in case that occurs

[@halobiohazard]

adding a comment for the algorithm, love your work, tysm.

[@FlaccidSoft]

Thanks for putting this out , this is really going to help us normies .

[@flameblade223]

Ive used tron before this video and to confirm this thing works magic its gotten rid of of medium level viruses which is insane to me

[@MrRelliks]

I used to work for geeksqaud and the MRI disc (I think that's what it was called) we got was always pretty good. Took a while to do a deep clean. I know that certain agents put it up on pirate bay but I'm not sure about newer up to date versions.

[@davidmalkowski7850]

IMO, it wasn't always perfect at cleaning up the damage, but it was a very good set it and forget it tool.

[@sbrazenor2]

What I do to stop ransomware from being a pest is that I run different OSes, and have multiple copies of important stuff in multiple different platforms, and offline. If I get hit with anything the impact will be almost nothing. For a while I was keeping system image copies so that if something catastrophic happened, almost nothing would be lost and nothing of value. Storage is cheap, so keeping a spare SSD with an updated OS on it isn't expensive. If something kills your system, you just trade out the drives, nuke the bad one and re-image it clean. You can also do things online with a VM and if the VM gets infected, it won't really matter. You keep a clean clone of the VM and then create a 'new' VM from the safe clone.

[@ademchokri8478]

Hahahahah my guy its like having a backup plan for a backu plan XD . But i like the idea of keeping the important stuff in an offline VM and in some SSDs incase u get hacked . At least when it comes to the super important stuff like work or studies .

[@freeloader69]

I’m pretty sure that my system got attacked while I was using a Kali VM (using Hyper-V on Windows 11 Pro). My VM was running entirely on an external SSD. After scanning a target system with Burp Suite using my VM set up this way, not only did the VM melt down, but I was shortly thereafter unable to connect to any WiFi with my laptop (a decent Dell Inspiron). Nothing I could do (and I’m no normie) was able to fix that short of factory resetting the system. Now I’m super paranoid and worried that I have a root kit or some other monster still lurking on this system, so that’s why I’m here watching this video. Is there any way that you (or anybody else) is aware that malicious code could have jumped from my VM to my physical system? If not - how do you explain the WiFi issue? If you’re wondering - I completely formatted the 500 GB Samsung T7 that was hosting my VM, and my laptop (for whatever crazy reason) does not have a LAN jack.

[@24680kong]

Thank you based IT man.

[@cory8777]

Dude I fckn love this channel.

[@chillypepperjr]

0:06 a man of culture and a devotee of gun jesus as well I see

[@aliencreation8744]

I feel this channel deserves more subscribers.

[@aliencreation8744]

you now appear to have more subscribers

[@atpray]

Ngl It feels weird to see Mental Outlaw voicing over a windows tutorial

[@urfork1]

youtube reccomended this to me out of the blue, I haven't searched anything related to viruses or even thought about it in a while, but I did download something sketchy this weekend. KZbin knew I had a torjan on my PC. kind of a W but also an L

[@ViroRads]

Kinda good for not tech savvy ppl like me, thank you based IT man!

[@elliottanderson9507]

If no one else has mentioned it, I am not going through the comments, the ginger with the Flamethrower is Ian McCollum from Forgotten Weapons, would recommend

[@Cooper-Data3]

Now even factory ressetting your PC isn't enough. There is now malware that can hook into your BIOS and run at Kernel level even after Windows is re-installed

[@Mandevil]

That's a thing? damn...

[@muramasa870]

it's called RIOT anticheat lmao

[@quantumastrologer5599]

Seing you navigate a windows gui is super uncanny. Great video!

[@widepeepohappy9719]

i used tron myself a year ago when i downloaded some sketchy shit and got my pc infected it actualy worked really well the only downside is that it took like 3hrs to do but it was woth it

[@Miki-hk6vy]

Lmao that's nothing, I remeber my first time running Tron was when I actually saw my laptop struggling where it didn't a couple weeks ago. Remember putting it to run at like 18:00 and it finished tomorrow at 9:00 remember the fan completely going back to how it was generally speeding up performance

[@Randorandom232]

Do you have to be connected to the internet to use?

[@widepeepohappy9719]

@@Randorandom232 i think so i dont remember but i think you need it cuz it downloads anti virus like mcaffe and stuff and then uninstalls them so you probably need internet

[@jar444]

what does it do? ik the video explains to a degree but what does it remove if you do have things on your computer? do i need to remove third party antivirus software before running it? is it safe?

[@Miki-hk6vy]

@@jar444 it won't delete things like pdfss,pictures,games,etc. (never happened to me in my last 8 times of using it) it just tries to get rid of a lot of virusess and for now is the best way to clean your pc from unwanted spyware/viruses you have on your pc

[@TiPitSgtBuddy]

I imagine that running this program while in safeboot would be more effective since it doesnt allow most startup programs to commence (only allowing vital windows functions to run on startup)

[@DJ-Daz]

The first step in removing malware, don't visit nefarious sites and download everything that you can. Prevention is better than the cure. The early 00's were rife with malware and little sense of the dangers. Experience is a tough but effective teacher.

[@mesaber86]

First step is using a sandbox and run all content in that. Even the browser.

[@drm.himself]

But I want to download every sketchy file on The Pirate Bay

[@UltimatePerfection]

No, I was just got this video recommended. Will be useful for the future.

[@j4g094]

"Unless you count windows itself" Funny, as I was thinking exactly that, then you said it :D

[@prestonferry]

I like how it’s named after the actual character TRON…

[@SafetyFooT]

I'm scared to comment 'cause I'm a "normie" and not a computer hacker, but i enjoy your content nonetheless.

[@permavirgin3595]

I don't know you and I'll never watch a video again but this damn program saved my PC. It feels like I bought it yesterday, thanks man.

[@yourma-uh5um]

I don't think I've ever had a virus ever since flash and java became pretty much useless.

[@Weepsy_]

The thumbnail is pure purity.

[@Ultrajamz]

👀 seems like a way to install malware on my pc one day with a trojan update

[@davidkra230]

good advice and found something new. conclusion: good vid and youtuber

[@Dheeidjdndbd]

The one time I got a legit fucking bad virus story: I was trying to download a cracked version of Sony Vegas in like 2018, and being a terrible seaman, I went to TPB. Got what I believed to be a good cracked torrent, it wasn’t. It basically opened my chrome, and ripped every single password I had saved on chrome’s auto password filler. Also not helpful is that I’m a sludge brain troglodyte so I had like 2 passwords I would use for everything. Queue me getting every single account I’ve ever used being accessed from Russia, hundreds in digital gift cards bought on Amazon, and my bank blocking numerous attempts to access. It’s a shit show. The next couple weeks were absolute hell, as I played catch up trying to ensure every site I have ever visited has all my PII removed and PW changed. I barely slept, and would wake up every night with security alert emails from attempted access from a plethora of shitholes. Ultimately, I completely zero wiped the PC after a shitload of antivirus runs and Hitman Pro and reinstalled windows, but shortly thereafter switched over to Linux mint as my daily driver. Don’t be a moron like me. Use FOSS, and you won’t need to download shitty fake cracks like a mong.

[@Mandevil]

going from a silly mistake like using The Pirate Bay to fully switching to Linux and FOSS programs must've been a big step lol. I still download cracks tho I can't stand free versions of stuff

[@Badcitizenlgn]

same as the guy who said that he would not touch this even with a 10ft stick or so if it would not be for this video. Thanks for the review

[@fedsmoker943]

A warning to anyone downloading this and running it out of pure curiosity. All this did was uninstall the Xbox app and then powered down my pc before I could even see the displayed results. It also made redownloading and installing the app a complete nightmare which I've been trying to fix all morning since I use the xbox app almost daily.

[@VividFlash]

Next time read what it does and disable the xbox uninstall

[@Gogglesofkrome]

Heed your local ITman and don't ever leap without looking when it comes to tech, not unless you want to spend a day trying to fix whatever you just broke

[@Mandevil]

Why does it uninstall useful stuff?

[@Josh-jw3go]

It removes bloatware. But you can tell it what to keep

[@lunondisposable5382]

I really like that you can disable each part individually, since I already have Malwarebytes and disabled Windows Update.

[@cov5591]

I would love to see a linux version

[@arnaudFbr]

@ISCARI0T still possible, saying this makes no sense, you don't know what's on this man's computer or what he downloaded. Malwares exist on any system that's connected to the internet. Even linux sorry to break it to you

[@tlfp7587]

@@arnaudFbr When I used to run honeypots, I got a decent chunk of automated bots downloading malicious scripts off the internet that were specifically designed to pwn routers and IOT devices, ClamAV got most of those as malicious, so it does happen.

[@robertcoyle9071]

Its so rare that it would be hard to find any real life examples of using it. about the only thing Linux is susceptible to are rootkits. there's rkhunter for that. I'm not saying it's 100% virus proof but since every system is so different it would be hard to write one that handles all linux variants. and when they do come up its usually patched before you even read about it. If you want safe install rkhunter, opensnitch, lynis and afick. opensnitch tells you of anything trying to connect to a port and you white list/black list it as it comes up. I have mine running as a daemon. afick is a file integrity checker. beware tho, these aren't the most user friendly things. opensnitch does have a GUI tho but FWIU aficks GUI is terrible and not worth it. all of those are in official or AUR so I would imagine they would be in apt and the RH repos.

[@tlfp7587]

@@robertcoyle9071 Effectively, linux desktops are not worth the time to PWN unless it's for very specific targeted attacks, most attackers focus on windows/server/IOT stuff from what I've found.

[@LordTameo]

The longest I've seen Tron running was about 3 full days on an old PC.

[@calebthecourageous3912]

The Reddit blackout is being really annoying right now

[@ayushgaur9506]

this is very informative i would certainly brecommened this channel to my friends thank you

[@RobbieG17]

"...unless you count Windows as malware." Take my like and sub.

[@oc4725]

Could you do a gentoo guide and who it’s made for what skills I should have before using it aswell it looks really interesting

[@Bwaitforitjones]

Does anyone remember Norton Ghost back in the day? Backing up your PC with 8 disc and it took forever to do. Good times

[@Jizzrazz]

Ghost was pretty baller as a image distribution, one backup multicast from ghost to 20+ machines all at the network cost of 1 image deployment.

[@FlymanMS]

Forgotten Weapons clip, ah, I see you are a man of culture

[@fernandohg225]

It would be cool to have a loading bar, showing progress of each scan.

[@skysurferuk]

Awesome! Many thanks. Help like this is priceless 👍

[@geocrack.]

I have a problem after running the program. I wanted to use the multi-clipboard with win+v, but it didn't open. When I went into the settings to turn the feature back, on everything was greyed out and at the top it said "Some of these settings are hidden or managed by your organization" (translated) in yellow letters. Now I don't know how to turn the feature back on. Can someone help me?

[@mzmaker]

I have the same problem too :(

[@mzmaker]

Found the solution kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJ3FapuZoqqWqdE. Although the solution is for windows 11, it works for my windows 10 home single language

[@The10thdrago]

I haven't gotten a virus since I was a teenager on xp. Still this good to keep in back pocket

[@JamesWilson01]

That's exactly what I wanted you to think

[@reimarpb]

Well you can't really tell if you have a keylogger installed

[@The10thdrago]

@@reimarpb yeah you could because at some point, you'd notice things grow legs and walk away. Besides EVERYONE has a hardware level keylogger on their system.

[@EddyMamona17]

Yee I wonder if Mental is creating the thumbnail on his own or just finding them and creating the content based of the memes

[@slavic_commonwealth]

these thumbnails always are amazing, I love them so much

[@slavic_commonwealth]

@infomercial enjoyer do you know any channels except of this and Luke Smith who make similar thumbnails for their videos?

[@Pilotkosinus]

So this is a channel worth watching

[@cbruxx]

Question, so how would this interact with files that something like windows defender notes as a trojan or something but is just dll files required for an older game... would it exclude areas you've excluded within windows defender, or just remove things it notes automatically, or something else?

[@VividFlash]

You can change everything in the settings to how you want

[@danielrdrigues]

Good advice, will test it later.

[@PhunkBustA]

the only true backup is an offline backup, that never gets connected to the internet

[@Oxdim27]

This method got me an extra 2 hours battery on my laptop nice

[@benb1422]

the most amazing part of this guide was that 60 mb/s download speed

[@hianwillians]

I don't know man, I thought it was common nowadays. I live in Brazil (inner/medium sized city) and I already get 35 mb/s. download speed. They increased it two times in the last 6 months, from 200 to 300 and then to 350. I suppose in bigger cities, speacially in USA, that should be even higher as rule?

[@billy4301]

Unfortunately not

[@spookzer16]

Oddly enough, I didn't search for this. Showed up in my feed and I clicked.

[@TNFlies]

Have not had a virus since I stopped torrenting all the time lol. I'm not saying I don't recommend it, but if you have money just buy the stuff. As long as you are not a BUG MAN who needs to consume too much copyrighted content.

[@thosdev]

i fucking love pirating!!!!

[@Shajirr_]

I've been torrenting for 10+ years, still use torrent, no viruses. At least as far as I know, which means no changes to the system and none of my accounts accessed / stolen. Just scan what you download. In that time I had more problems with services not related to torrent in any way being hacked themselves (like Mangadex for example).

[@pelmic93]

always love discovering new tools

[@LewdigWS]

is this a out of season aprils fool? run this script with elevated permisson rights. it will remove any malware form your PC. yeah trust me dude my cousin was a temp at geek squad...

[@nbrpwng]

I wish I could like the vid twice because the flamethrower footage with Ian

[@ArniesTech]

You wouldnt hit that cute Anime waifu with that hammer, would you? 😱😱😅

[@THE_CARBON]

shot and killed her sister

[@ShafterPlay]

This is very nice to know, thank you

[@philldevil2]

how do you know that the tron.exe doesn't contain malware, or is malware itself ?, I don't like exe's I rather trust a script that lets me see the code. Is there a script for tron also ?

[@slavic_commonwealth]

it's open source AFAIK

[@CauseOfBSOD]

3:18 it doesn't look like it downloads it, it seems to be a 7-zip self extracting archive, so its basically a .7z archive embedded in a stripped-down copy of 7-zip that automatically extracts the files from the embedded archive and does nothing else.

[@alexeisavrasov888]

the further down the line I get from being a daily Windows user (2 years now), the more it horrifies me. When people go on about Linux being hard or you having to spend more time on it - it's the opposite. Just a fresh install of Windows for me involved 2-3 different tweak programs, to try to tame it. By the end I found that whatever I did, telemetry always reset itself to 'on'. That's when I went to Mint and found out that the music program that tied me to Windows actually worked 'platinum' on WINE, so I was off...and I thank God everyday for Linux.

[@drewdevinproductions5173]

Linux is way easier to install then Windows it depends on your distro

[@Grayest_Fox]

>Distro comes with an installer >Installer allows you to pick EVERY SINGLE visual aspect of your install >Somehow Windows is easier UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@Bagginsess]

People forget/ignore/blackhole the fact that linux does not always install so easily. Just want linus tech tip's attempt. This is the second reason most people are put off by linux, the first is that they find any computer difficult. Most people don't even install windows, they bought their PC as such or had someone else do it. Also a lot of people have programs they require for work that don't work under wine so linux isn't even difficult for them, it's just impossible. Still, linux is way more normie approachable than it was 10 years ago and it will only improve.

[@alexeisavrasov888]

@@Bagginsess but let's be honest, how many people would do what he did - that was outrageous, even I would know not to do that. I mean, the thing gave him a huge warning "on the command line", and he still went through with it. I think he was fishing..but as to Linux installs, I don't know what you're after, but they couldn't be easier. It **wants** to intstall...

[@Bagginsess]

@@alexeisavrasov888 no I mean the whole process of figuring out what a distro is, which distro to chooses, what is an iso, how to use rufus, how to install it, what programs do you need after, how to troubleshoot, etc. Linus made a mistake yes but I'm not talking about that. Normies look at computers like cars, they are very intimidated doing "low level" work like this if they even have the motivation to do it at all. That's why I think System 76 and Pine are so great because they are selling products pre-installed with a tailored linux experience. However even installing in and of its self can be problematic. Try it for yourself: download mint, popOS, fedora, ubuntu, manjaro and install them on various computers with thumbdrives so you don't over write your family/friend's computers and you'll find the installs are buggy sometimes depending on hardware and the distro. I have had it happen many times and sometimes just reinstalling is all it takes other times using an entirely different distro fixes it. A normie would look at that and say no thanks.

[@jamesboyce7467]

super useful as always

[@killwind]

Question, does anyone know if this particular method would see piracy crack files as a security threat and delete them w/o the option to opt them out?

[@billy4301]

Nope

[@q1fiend623]

4 eye'd cat man includes clip of Gun Jesus. Take my thumbs up!

[@fahad_hassan_92]

Thanks

[@caseyriley1014]

Love the typical movie hacker clip in the beginning