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How to Get Rid of a Computer Virus


Computer virus is a very common and continuous threat. To get rid of suffering an infection, you should be very familiar with the system and efficient use of security tools.

1. Detect the virus: Good quality antivirus program has a monitoring function that endlessly verify the system for viruses. This function is offered by default, but you need to run the program and check, just to be safe. If the antivirus software finds a threat, a pop-up box appears and shows the user name and case of the computer virus, its location, and a response to this recommendation.

In addition to detect a safety program must also be able, signs of infection on your system. The sudden and unexplained malfunction in the web browser, system utilities or some other 3rd party applications should be processed immediately. To distinguish these characters that have the virus infection, the user a high degree of familiarity with the system needs. If you've a PC, open the Task Manager, and drag on the Processes tab. It lists all running programs. If you see something that should not, hold back the program, and then see if the problem is resolved.

2. Run Security Program: Most antivirus applications can be configured to automatically scan the disk. But still a good idea to run manually outside the schedule, especially if there is something wrong in the operation of your system. In Windows, activate the icon of the antivirus is a rule in the system tray. Click or right click the program access to the menu and select a scan or Run. Make sure to configure the program to scan the entire hard drive or all drives. If a threat or an infection is detected, the recommended measures to move always in the corrupted file to quarantine on the disk. There is a separate memory space created by the program. After scanning, delete the wrong file from quarantine.

3. Update the antivirus: Continuously viruses are being invented. The efficacy of an antivirus program is essentially on its database. You can set the programs to automatically update its database. Also, the program would start from time to time, check that the virus database is the latest version, and if not, do the update yourself. Most malfunctions in the finding and deletion of viruses are due to defects in updating the database program.


4. Find virus on security websites: If the antivirus program can not operate to deal with the threat to its own research, the proposals in step one, at least get the name or nature of the virus. Go online and find information. The solution is not necessarily on the website of your antivirus. Search the sites of the safety of others and also in forums for this problem.

If all attempts fail, the crucial solution to a problem of viruses is to format the hard drive. This is a regrettable last resort; however several viruses are so dangerous that you may have no any other choice.

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