How to get rid of the compatibilitycheck.exe trojan / adware / virus
This virus / adware can really be a pain because somtimes in consumes most of the computer's cpu and memory!
- First I tried with FreeFixer as advised bei several pages but it didn't work
- then I started my computer (Win7) in secure mode (press F8 while restarting)
- I opened the folder "C:\Users\..*your username*...\AppData\Roaming\Compatibility Verifier" and
- deleted both of the files:
- compatibilitycheck.exe
- compatibilitychecksvc.exe
- then made 2 new TXT.files with right click of the mouse in this directory with same name as the 2 above deleted files
- Then I restarted computer in normal mode and it worked fine - no problems with compatibilitycheck virus again
- But of course - it's not the perfect solution because the virus is still there in the system somehow and if you occasionally delete the whole folder "C:\Users\..*your username*...\AppData\Roaming\Compatibility Verifier" the virus will detect it and reinstall his original version and you can start to remove from scratch
- Therefore I will try now with other malware scanners (like Malware-Bytes Antimalware) to remove it completely
- Update Jan. 19th 2015:
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