I've been struggling hard for the past three days to try to get rid of a virus that took control over my computer without losing much data.
The infected file seemed to be msjhbd.ttc, located in the Windows\Fonts folder.
All texts and panels looked funny on my desktop, and everything worked terribly slowly.
First I tried Avast boot-time scan. It could identify the erroneous file (showing as 'Data error') but it just couldn't delete it.
As a second attempt, I tried to locate and remove the file manually. But as soon as I reached its folder, everything just went frozen. Only hard reboot could restart my computer. Trying to remove it from the Registry also had the same (no) result.
Startup repair and system restore options had also failed.
What I could still have done is to remove my hard disk, connect it to another computer via a USB-to-SATA cable, and erase the infected files. But I just couldn't have bothered taking apart my laptop; so the final solution I chose was to reinstall Windows 10 from scratch.
Good that I had backups of most of my personal files and settings, so it didn't take much time to recover my computer.
(Only 3 days!)
Well, this is how I spent my weekend. How about you?
Have you experienced anything similar to this?
The infected file seemed to be msjhbd.ttc, located in the Windows\Fonts folder.
All texts and panels looked funny on my desktop, and everything worked terribly slowly.
First I tried Avast boot-time scan. It could identify the erroneous file (showing as 'Data error') but it just couldn't delete it.
As a second attempt, I tried to locate and remove the file manually. But as soon as I reached its folder, everything just went frozen. Only hard reboot could restart my computer. Trying to remove it from the Registry also had the same (no) result.
Startup repair and system restore options had also failed.
What I could still have done is to remove my hard disk, connect it to another computer via a USB-to-SATA cable, and erase the infected files. But I just couldn't have bothered taking apart my laptop; so the final solution I chose was to reinstall Windows 10 from scratch.
Good that I had backups of most of my personal files and settings, so it didn't take much time to recover my computer.
(Only 3 days!)
Well, this is how I spent my weekend. How about you?
Have you experienced anything similar to this?