Unlock Windows - Instruction

Unfortunately, numerous virus attacks do not give a chance to the illiterate user, curious to the "strawberry" or just logged on to the infected site. The scale of the epidemic has become widespread "blockers" Windows. These programs are mainly distributed through the vulnerabilities of popular browsers or downloaded malware. The result, as a rule, appears the next time you boot the system - you need to unlock Windows.

It looks like this: the user instead of the usual desktop the system displays a beautiful window on the whole screen, where they are required to put money on a certain number, supposedly the unlock code will be on the check, and in older versions of the malicious program and send SMS to the paid number altogether. Often apply and various tricks in order to entice the gullible user of his blood. For example, many users display text: "Your system is locked because an unlicensed copy of Windows is installed, please pay a penalty for the next issue ...".

Sometimes attackers come up with something and more interesting. After all, I want everyone to have a lack of money, and fraud, even such a small one, but on the scale of hundreds of thousands of PCs allows them to get them quickly with the least risk of getting caught.

In fairness, it should be noted that many of these programs do have unlock codes, as the TrojanWinlock. The anti-virus laboratories DrWeb and Kaspersky have specialized services for finding unlock codes for a particular modification of malicious software, which anyone can use for free.

If you are one of those numerous users who have become a victim of scammers, in no case send SMS. Unlocking Windows can be done by yourself. In Windows 7, the easiest way to use the system restore function, called up via the boot menu on the F8 key. The recovery mechanism is as follows: the startup parameters will be restored to normal by eliminating the malicious program. For a guaranteed effect, you should not use startup recovery, namely system recovery, but first you need to clean the boot sector with the fixboot and fixmbr commands.

There are other ways of releasing the system. In particular, the largest anti-virus laboratories Dr. Web and Kaspersky have released utilities for solving these problems. Let's see in more detail what they are.

It should be noted that the ease with which special programs unlock Windows. Kaspersky WindowsUnlocker is the program that comes with the Kaspersky Rescue Disk recovery disc, which should be downloaded from the official site. This is a normal live cd based on Linux, about 200-300 megabytes in size.

The only difference from standard Linux distributions of this kind is the availability of proprietary design and specialized scripts, one of which is Windows Unlocker, running from the terminal with the corresponding program. Just type the name of the program in the terminal, look for the Windows installation and choose the menu item "Unlock Windows". You can save copies of the boot sectors beforehand, but this option is more for professionals who often have to deal with this type of infection.

If this service did not help you, then it's possible to unlock Windows Dr Web. It's enough to download a free product of Live CD and start the scan. Alternatively, use the CureIT utility with the latest databases, which can be downloaded from the official ftp company. But this is only if running in safe mode with command-line support is still available. In another way, unlocking Windows is done only with the branded Live CD.