Wednesday, November 1, 2017

will re-installing windows without formatting and running anti virus remove viruses?

I suspected I had virus in my system. I downloaded the trial version of Kaspersky internet Security 2013, updated the DB and ran a full system scan. It identified the viruses and removed them and subsequent scans showed the system clean.


Just to be sure, I formatted the windows drive and reinstalled windows. I have some files that need to be backed up in the other drives and i cannot format them.


Will the reinstallation disable any lingering viruses or should I format the whole hard disk to get rid of the viruses completely?

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