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Solution (Given) to removing Alureon !gen A trojan
Hey Everybody,
I joined this forum last night to seek help resolving a terrible crash of my Windows 7 Home Edition home desktop that resulted after Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) detected, and then failed to remove the Alureon gen!A Trojan many times.
For about a month or two, MSE, which was set up to run a daily full scan, excluding no folders, programs, or external drives, and to automatically remove all threats, was telling me about 10 times a day that it detected threats (only one, Alureon gen!A), and removed them, and that I had to restart my computer. I did this several times, with no luck. I spent some time online and followed instructions to remove this Trojan (removing its keys from the registry, emptying the temp files, running the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool), with no luck. Finally, last night, I went out and bought some DVDs and wrote a Windows Offline Defender boot disk.
I restarted my computer, ran a full scan with Windows Offline Defender, and Alureon gen !A was the only threat detected, just like MSE. I removed it. It said the removal was successful, and asked me to restart the machine. I restarted the machine, removed the boot disk, and started windows normally. The "Starting Windows" black screen with the flags showed up, but immediately afterwards, a blue screen of death showed for a fraction of a second and my system restarted.
I tried safe mode boot, startup repair, system restore, startup repair from an install disk, and disabling "automatically restart after system fails to boot." This last thing caught my attention, since it only worked after the first restart after disabling it, and I could see the blue screen of death for a longer time.
I did some searches on my tablet, and found that if I pressed F10 during boot and removed "/MININT" from the line reading /NOEXECUTE=OPTION /MININT, and pressed enter, my computer booted just fine, and the Trojan was no longer detected by MSE.
I hope someone finds this helpful (I spent 6 hours trying to fix this problem with a 5 second fix).