Can I actually remove viruses without using any program? Like manually removing it, or something like that... Thanks...

It takes a lot of tedious command-line work that i gurantee you have no skill doing. Stick with malwarebytes for virus removal.

Haha. That's the thrill of it. I have no idea of that command-line so I want to test my limits. Where can I learn it?

>>3 codecademy is a good website to learn coding languages, and they are implementing a cmd course i think, only 3 parts to it atm last time i checked though.

Basically, without knowing specifics myself, you would locate the filepath you suspect to be infected, do some tests on various files to make sure things are in order, and if they're not, you would go about deleting the file manually. I promise it isn't as fun as it sounds. I once wanted to learn the same thing, and I got about as far as being able to search among my system files before giving up.
There's just too damn much to learn.

Why the hell would you even bother doing it ?

Bragging rights, mostly.
Very, very little other reason.

If you have a backup prior to infection, you can always wipe the HD and restore from backup.

>>8 That's some really lazy mentality right there. That's a last-ditch resort kind of thing.
It's like wiping your drive for a trojan. Why? Because you don't know anything about computer security.

>>9 Do you know more than him ?

>>10 Apparently so.
Douche.

>>8 I had to do that a couple of times due to not knowing much code. The first virus was from an add and messed with the boot code. It just stayed on a black screen with the underscore blinking at me every time I booted. That is why I use adblock plus now too.

The other is when the system files became corrupt. I didn't think much of it till I needed system updates and I couldn't due to the system files missing, or being altered, after the virus was removed. I tried everything to fix that one, but nothing really worked on fixing those system files.

If I knew more about programming, and the code in win7, I might have been able to fix some of the problems without resorting to the system backup.

But the OP is asking how to manually remove a virus without the use of a program. A system backup utility, to my knowledge, is a program.

So it seems >>9 does in fact know more than >>8, since 8 didn't even answer any part of the OP's question. While >>9 did offer insight into the original question asked.

You can, in the same sense that you can demolish the Great Pyramid with a plastic spoon.

There are much better ways to spend your time, even for bragging rights.

>>5
>There's just too damn much to learn.
Story of my life. I'm dumber the more I learn.

>>13
I agree with this.
It's like bragging that you manually created an XML backup of your iTunes library.
Yes, it's cool that you know how to do it, but actually going through and entering data for 500+ albums and playlists is not really that great. Especially given there is code already written for automating that.

Now, if you wrote your own automated process for removing malware, that would actually be pretty cool. Even though there are products already on the market, that's cool to me. But manually removing them...I wouldn't myself. Not only because I don't know how to scan a file for problems, but it would take a lot of time.

>>14 So much time that you could literally create a computer from scratch in the amount needed...

That actually made me laugh, just as A.l.d.A and Anonymous explained it would take too much time and its probably not even worth it