DIY - Computer Virus! How To Perform A Virus Scan, Clean It, And How To Protect Your Computer

A virus is a program that been built to harm, steal information, trace or any other crime that can be made by a computer. Why people doing it? The truth is we can't really understand the sick ones, but, we can understand that we are in the other side, we can be harmed, and all of us already did. Some of them doing it for steal powerful information, like our credit card details. This way they can steal money. And some, the sickest ones, just doing it for fun.

Protection

I would say take the one that will keep your computer clean from any virus/malware longer, and the one that will sit there without bothering you. I almost forgot... The one that won't cost you money.

You have 3 great options. They all are the same.

The first one is AVAST, this program very quite (you need to choose a permanently silent mode. You can download it free and register by name and email. They will never send you an email, it's just for the registration. The others are AVG and Avira Personal, they both are the same as AVAST, and they all very good.

So download one of them, install, and get full protection for unlimited time.

The thing is, there are many viruses that can by-pass your anti-virus. How? Good question.

Let's say that anti-virus program protecting your computer from unwanted (by you) data to get into your computer. If you surfing the web and some picture, or advertisement, catching your eye, and you decide to click on it you just told your anti-virus that you are want this data to be on your computer! That's it. People asking every day. "If I have anti-virus, how come I get infected?" That's how.

Treatment

Your computer got infected, your internet browser acting strange, your computer getting slow... You have to do something.

First, sooner = better. There is one professional software to clean your computer well - it's called MalwareBytes. You can try the free version or buy the full version. The difference is that you get real time protection only from the non-free version.

1. Download

2. Install

3. Restart your computer in safe mode (F8 right after first screen)

4. Open the MalwareBytes software

5. Perform "Full Scan"

6. Clean the virus/es.

Recommendation

Most of the time the virus already harm your operating system (Windows, etc.) files. We suggest that you will backup your precious files, like pictures, documents, videos, etc., and format/install fresh copy of OS. Pay once to your computer company provider to get Recovery Disc, and every time that you getting "slow," just backup your files and perform a recovery.

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