I received a question in one of the posts here named Virus Removal in Safemode from a guy named Matt. He asked…
What if you have no anti-virus or anything installed? And say the virus wont allow for a normal boot, only safe mode.
Oh and the virus I believe is: brastk
I did some hunting around and from what I read there is a fairly simple way to remove the Brastk.exe virus even though it is very pesky.
1.)Boot up in to Safemode (hit F8 on booting and select safe mode)
2.)Search for the following four files… brastk.exe, delself.bat, ,dllcache\beep.sys ,\dllcache\figaro.sys and delete them.
3.)Open up Regedit in the run menu
4.)You now need to clean the registry of anything related. To do this, click on find and enter brastk and do a search, delete any values that show up with that name in. Repeat by pressing F3 until there are no records left with that name.
5.)Repeat again but this time looking for do-scan-progress.com in the registry. Delete all those entries.
6.)I’d recommend running a virus remover, spyware scanner and looking through the startup folder on your PC to see if any strange programs are set to load up.
Once done, reboot and see if the brastk virus has now gone.
There is also a tool to be found over on net-studio which you might want to try. I have not tried this tool and cannot vouch for it being authentic.
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