Delete NewFolder.exe virus from your pen drive or Hard Disk

Post date: Mar 31, 2011 3:27:29 AM

It is the famous virus you might have in your hard disk or pen drive. It would create empty folder inside of all your folder.

1.Go to Start > Search > All Files or Folders.

2.In the "All or part of the the file name" section, type in "newfolder.exe" file name(s).

3.To get better results, select "Look in: Local Hard Drives" or "Look in: My Computer" and then click "Search" button.

4.When Windows finishes your search, hover over the "In Folder" of "newfolder.exe", highlight the file and copy/paste the path into the address bar. Save the file's path on your clipboard because you'll need the file path to delete newfolder.exe in the following manual removal steps.

Step 2: Use Windows Task Manager to Remove newfolder.exe Processes

1.To open the Windows Task Manager, use the combination of CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC.

2.Click on the "Image Name" button to search for "newfolder.exe" process by name.

3.Select the "newfolder.exe" process and click on the "End Process" button to kill it.

Read more about How to kill newfolder.exe Processes

Step 3: Detect and Delete Other newfolder.exe Files

1.To open the Windows Command Prompt, go to Start > Run > cmd and then press the "OK" button.

2.Type in "dir /A name_of_the_folder" (for example, C:\Spyware-folder), which will display the folder's content even the hidden files.

3.To change directory, type in "cd name_of_the_folder".

4.Once you have the file you're looking for type in del "name_of_the_file".

5.To delete a file in folder, type in "del name_of_the_file".

6.To delete the entire folder, type in "rmdir /S name_of_the_folder".

7.Select the "newfolder.exe" process and click on the "End Process" button to kill it.

                                                                                                                                Courtesy  Raj Chandel  

Delhi