(Solved!) How to clean "DEBUG\ITEM.DAT" virus? Here is your "DEBUG\ITEM.DAT" Manual Removal Guide

Be careful! Full path on computer: %WINDIR%\DEBUG\ITEM.DAT

What is DEBUG\ITEM.DAT?

How DEBUG\ITEM.DAT got on your computer?

Phishing is the most common way for malware to infect computers.
It could be a fake email message that appears to be originated from Microsoft Customer Service, eBay, PayPal, Amazon, or even your bank or insurance company.
Fake emails that appear to come from the police, the FBI and other government entities were also reported.

DEBUG\ITEM.DAT could also infect your computer by exploiting a security vulnerability of your Web browser or one of its plugins.
If this is the case, DEBUG\ITEM.DAT would be injected into a Web page, and could get to your PC when you visited a malicious or hacked Web site.

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DEBUG\ITEM.DAT can be distributed with legitimate software that is repackaged by the scammers.
It could be downloaded from warez Web sites or download archives.

How do you know you have DEBUG\ITEM.DAT on my computer?

DEBUG\ITEM.DAT works in background. It does not appear as a window, does not have a shortcut.
DEBUG\ITEM.DAT hides its existence from your eyes.

You have 2 ways to remove DEBUG\ITEM.DAT:

1. Remove Automatically.
2. Remove Manually.

Why I recommend you to use an automatic way?

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How to remove DEBUG\ITEM.DAT manually:

STEP 1: Check all shortcuts of your browsers on your desktop, taskbar and in the Start menu. Right click on your shortcut and change it's properties.

You can see DEBUG\ITEM.DAT at the end of shortcut target (command line). Remove it and save changes.

In addition, check this command line for fake browser's trick.
For example, if a shortcut points to Google Chrome, it must have the path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe.
Fake browser may be: …\Appdata\Roaming\HPReyos\ReyosStarter3.exe.
Also the file name may be: “chromium.exe” instead of chrome.exe.

STEP 2: Investigate the list of installed programs and uninstall all unknown recently installed programs.

STEP 3: Open Task Manager and close all processes, related to DEBUG\ITEM.DAT in their description. Discover the directories where such processes start. Search for random or strange file names.

Remove DEBUG\ITEM.DAT virus from running processes

STEP 4: Inspect the Windows services. Press Win+R, type in: services.msc and press OK.

Remove DEBUG\ITEM.DAT virus from Windows services

Disable the services with random names or contains DEBUG\ITEM.DAT in it's name or description.

STEP 5: After that press Win+R, type in: taskschd.msc and press OK to open Windows Task Scheduler.

Delete any task related to DEBUG\ITEM.DAT. Disable unknown tasks with random names.

STEP 6: Clear the Windows registry from DEBUG\ITEM.DAT virus.
Press Win+R, type in: regedit.exe and press OK.

Remove DEBUG\ITEM.DAT virus from Windows registry

Find and delete all keys/values contains DEBUG\ITEM.DAT.

STEP 7: Remove DEBUG\ITEM.DAT from Google Chrome.

STEP 8: Remove DEBUG\ITEM.DAT from Internet Explorer.

Set Internet Explorer Homepage

STEP 9: Remove DEBUG\ITEM.DAT from Mozilla Firefox.

Change Firefox Home Page

STEP 10: And at the end, clear your basket, temporal files, browser's cache.

But if you miss any of these steps and only one part of virus remains – it will come back again immediately or after reboot.

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