Do you remember the time when you computer seem to be functioning slowly? The system is locking up and stops responding from time to time? Does it restarts on its own and then fails to run normally? How about unusual error message or you cannot access your disk drives? This is symptoms of virus infection.
We will talk about two ways on how to remove virus or spyware infection from your computer.
Virus is malicious software that is designed to wreck havoc on your computer system.
Spyware on the other side pretends to be useful software but they are designed to get bits and pieces of information from a computer user.
Do you know that the Sophos Company experts said that about 40,000 computer viruses are now known to exist? The experts even claims that about 200 new computer viruses are released into the Internet each month.
Automatic Removal If all else failed and your computer is infected do not panic there are things that can be done in order to remove the infestation from your computer.
Your anti virus or anti spyware program like MacAfee, Avast, Norton can also serve as automatic virus removal tool, all you need to do is run the anti virus complete pc scan.
More than often, with infection your computer still boots up okay however will perform very slowly and you will have a hard time running the anti virus or anti spyware scan on it.
To get around this start your computer on safe mode and run the virus or spyware scan from there.
It should automatically detect the virus or spyware and it will give you an option to do nothing, delete or quarantine.
Manual Removal There are instance where anti virus or anti spyware will not do the trick of removing the infection automatically.
This is where manual virus and spyware removal comes in.
This is normally the last resort for computer users that did not do any file backup and wants to avoid doing a reformat that will erase everything on the hard drive.
Depending upon the severity of the infection the approach can greatly differ.
If the computer can still at least boot to the operating system, the tricky part is moving inside since normally the system will be sluggish and there will be multiple layers of pop up advertisement or error message.
What we need to do is log on to safe mode, it will do two things, disable programs that we do not need for the troubleshooting like error message pop ups and it also disables some of the infection that slows down the computer.
Once the computer is working fast enough you can download process explorer and autoruns.
This program will detect programs running on your computer that you do not need, just be careful on using it because it also can mess up your computer some more.
You can find information on how to use autoruns and process explorer at http://technet.
microsoft.
com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.
aspx.
After that you can restart your computer and you should be all set.
We will talk about two ways on how to remove virus or spyware infection from your computer.
Virus is malicious software that is designed to wreck havoc on your computer system.
Spyware on the other side pretends to be useful software but they are designed to get bits and pieces of information from a computer user.
Do you know that the Sophos Company experts said that about 40,000 computer viruses are now known to exist? The experts even claims that about 200 new computer viruses are released into the Internet each month.
Automatic Removal If all else failed and your computer is infected do not panic there are things that can be done in order to remove the infestation from your computer.
Your anti virus or anti spyware program like MacAfee, Avast, Norton can also serve as automatic virus removal tool, all you need to do is run the anti virus complete pc scan.
More than often, with infection your computer still boots up okay however will perform very slowly and you will have a hard time running the anti virus or anti spyware scan on it.
To get around this start your computer on safe mode and run the virus or spyware scan from there.
It should automatically detect the virus or spyware and it will give you an option to do nothing, delete or quarantine.
Manual Removal There are instance where anti virus or anti spyware will not do the trick of removing the infection automatically.
This is where manual virus and spyware removal comes in.
This is normally the last resort for computer users that did not do any file backup and wants to avoid doing a reformat that will erase everything on the hard drive.
Depending upon the severity of the infection the approach can greatly differ.
If the computer can still at least boot to the operating system, the tricky part is moving inside since normally the system will be sluggish and there will be multiple layers of pop up advertisement or error message.
What we need to do is log on to safe mode, it will do two things, disable programs that we do not need for the troubleshooting like error message pop ups and it also disables some of the infection that slows down the computer.
Once the computer is working fast enough you can download process explorer and autoruns.
This program will detect programs running on your computer that you do not need, just be careful on using it because it also can mess up your computer some more.
You can find information on how to use autoruns and process explorer at http://technet.
microsoft.
com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.
aspx.
After that you can restart your computer and you should be all set.
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