HOW TO REMOVE THE PAINT.exe VIRUS

WHAT IS THE PAINT VIRUS?

According to solvusoft , ''PAINT.exe is a type of  EXE file associated with Windows developed by Microsoft for the Windows Operating System. The latest known version of PAINT.exe is 1.0.0.0, which was produced for Windows. This EXE file carries a popularity rating of 1 stars and a security rating of "UNKNOWN".

The question to be asked is if this is really a MICROSOFT file. I've done a research on what this paint file really is and although I couldn't get a real meaning for PAINT.exe, I did get solutions to fixing the virus; 

1. REPAIRING REGISTRY ENTRIES

There are applications used to repair or fix registry entries. PAINT.exe affects other (.exe )files in folders in your internal drive by replacing the real (.exe)file with an 825kb file and hides the real (.exe)file, this is as a result of infected registries which changes the file location or replaces the real (.exe)file as said previously.
Winthruster from solvusoft helps to fix the registry entries.

2. FIXING SYSTEM ERRORS

If the above doesn't work the next step is to try and fix the system errors. 

System errors can be fixed from properties by following the steps below:

(a) Go to my computer on your PC

(b) Right-click on your hard disk and click on properties

(c) Click on tools and click on check under error checking.

(d) Wait for it and your system errors will be fixed.

3. CLEARING THE PAINT.exe and AUTORUN.inf  

If you've noticed Autorun.inf could be found where the Paint.exe is, so the last answer would be to clear the Autorun.inf  from each partition in your PC by searching for Paint.exe and Autorun.inf