Have you heard of the quickbasic virus?

[Firehawk17]

Okay my computer just downloaded this thing called quickbasic.exe without me knowing. It changed my default search engine to quickbasic.com only in Google Chrome and I can't change it back to google.com or even bing.com. What should I do? I already tried to uninstall the virus from the control panel but the folder and the .exe file could not be deleted.

[Kermanit]

Find a large bat and commence beating your computer to a wrangled mess

[Commander32]

You do have an antivirus installed right? something tells me you don't have one. always have one, and lucky you, we have free AV software that provides basic yet essential security.

[Firehawk17]

You do have an antivirus installed right? something tells me you don't have one. always have one, and lucky you, we have free AV software that provides basic yet essential security.

Well, actually I have 2 AVs installed and 1 Spyware S&D. I have already fixed the problem just now.

[stormgear]

Hmm, I always thought that you should only use one antivirus instead of two? I suggest that you either boot-scan your harddrive or pluck it out and scan it as a slave at another computer with an antivirus.

[Kyang]

I just reformat infected computers. I see no point in messing around wondering if an AV really worked and if the virus is really gone or not, lol.

[R315r4z0r]

Malwarebytes is awesome at removing the 'hard to remove' viruses.

I use Avast! as my primary active scanner, but if something manages to install itself, I use malwarebytes to remove it.

[stormgear]

I just reformat infected computers. I see no point in messing around wondering if an AV really worked and if the virus is really gone or not, lol.

This is what I usually do at my friends computer and even mine. Cuz if the antivirus removes the virus, I have little to no idea what else the virus left that would simply clutter the computer. I'm thinking of stuffs like modified settings, registry entries etc.

Malwarebytes is awesome at removing the 'hard to remove' viruses.

I use Avast! as my primary active scanner, but if something manages to install itself, I use malwarebytes to remove it.

I use Avast too, does Malwarebytes remove those other stuff I mentioned above?

[PsionicAssassin]

Don't use 2 anti viruses at a time, you are just slowing your pc down.

I honestly don't catch, or have never suffered from viruses. Right now I don't even have an anti virus program installed. If it comes to the point of making my computer unable to function (won't happen), then I could just freshly install windows 7 again with all my datas saved onto my secondary drive.

[Kyang]

The thing about some of the more insidious viruses, some of them copy themselves onto every drive in the computer. So once you reformat your OS drive, the moment you plug in your second drive, the virus is back.

I don't have an anti-virus running, though I do have MSE installed.