That old basic .bat virus how to erase it

[stonecoldgen]

so you know that .bat virus that everyone knows how to make in notepad, a message pops up and your computer and then it shuts down

well, someone putted that in a computer with the internet explorer icon, someone wants to log into internet but ends up shutting down the computer



how do i erase it?

 

[Adyssa]

Right click on the IE icon, select Properties, and in the Shortcut tab there is a field called Target which is the path the program that is launched and will probably be "C:\something.bat" if they changed it. Change it back to Internet Explorer, which is here (in XP):

"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"