Complete Rebuild /
System Sterilization
There are often many different reasons for needing to
rebuild a computer. The most common are hardware failures or
malicious infections.
In the event of a HDD failure or massively corrupted
system files we either replace the failed drive or we completely
reformat the drive and begin the installation process following the
steps below.
If your system has become excessively infected with
malicious software such as viruses and trojans tracertTECH can
remove that malicious software and restore the operating system (OS)
to a stable and safe state. Because of the nature of spyware and
viruses that are loose in the wild, it has become increasingly more
difficult to remove them, even with aid of specially designed
software that is intended to remove spyware and viruses. In most
cases these protective software work at their best when installed
before an infection has occurred.
At tracertTECH we believe the most efficient and
effective way to repair an excessively infected system is to back up all the
data to a separate remote storage device and completely format the
HDD and
reinstall the operating system. This is what we call a
sterilization. Once the system has been formatted and the OS
reinstalled we run all Windows Updates available at the time of the
service. We also install Microsoft Security Essentials, a free antivirus as well as any customer
requested and/or supplied software that was in use before the
sterilization event.
