Can computer viruses /actually/ be removed or is it just a myth?

>>58223617

Shred your hard drive and hope your virus wasn't advanced enough to rewrite the firmware on your motherboard.

Most common viruses can be removed with pretty much any anti-virus software.

For best practices it's best to format and reinstall reason being is you cant be 100% certain the software you used removed it completely.

>>58223673
What do you mean by format and reinstall? Sorry for the dumb question

>>58223691
reformat essentially means delete everything on your harddrive, and reinstall refers to doing a completely new installation of whatever operating system you choose.

>>58223702

shit man, you just fell for the 'what did he mean by this' meme.

>>58223719
yeah man, I sure got him good with that meme. I'm definitely not just technologically illiterate no sir

>>58223702
But then you'll lose your keys for the various programs you have

>>58223617
Yes. Install Gentoo and it'll run like new.

>>58223802
>sir
hello pajeet

>>58223617
I charge people $65 to run a free scan of Malwarebytes and autoruns to make sure it didn't miss anything.

Then I watch YouTube for half an hour to make sure it isn't bombarded by unusual ads.