I have already talked about how to stop any Windows process that may have to do with the presence of malware in other articles, but it is worth dedicating a post for that small program that allows you to do it in one go, automatically. This is rKill, a must for every Windows PC user, which is the basis of every guide for the removal of viruses, malware and infections of any other kind.
What rKill does is to forcefully terminate all suspicious processes that may have been generated by known malware.
The tool is essential because the worst malware often not only causes problems, but prevents the use of antivirus or other scanning software to remove them.
It then becomes complicated if not impossible to get the virus out of the way after it infects your computer, if you don't locate and end the process that keeps it alive.
RKill is a program developed by BleepingComputer.com designed to have a tool that was easy to use, capable of terminating known malware and removing Windows registry entries that prevent the use of security programs .
The trick, really simple and not technically special at all, therefore becomes a fundamental and preliminary step to annihilating infections on the computer.
In summary, RKill only stops the processes generated by known malware on 32-bit and 64-bit computers and scans the registry to remove entries that prevent the antivirus from starting.
RKill only terminates the processes, but does not remove the offending files.
After using it, it is important not to restart the computer, otherwise the malware processes, set by their nature with automatic start, will restart.
After running RKill you must start the scan to remove malware like Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, SuperAntiSpyware or other programs to remove viruses from your computer.
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RKill can be downloaded from the Bleepingcomputer website.
It can be seen, on the download page, that there are three blue buttons: one downloads rKill.exe while the other two always download the rKill tool, but with a different name.
This is useful in case the computer has been hit by malware which, to avoid being removed, blocks the execution of security programs.
So if the .exe fails to work as it should, you need to download one of the other two.
