What Have To Do If You Get a Virus on Your Computer

What Have To Do If You Get a Virus on Your Computer

In recent days many viruses and other types of malware are simply designed to cause chaos and malware is used for crimes to steal credit card numbers and other sensitive data. If you're notified by a message saying 'a virus is detected' or your system goes slow and unreliable then this article will dealing a process for the infection and to remove the malware.

 
If you alerted by a pop-up message saying 'a virus has been detected', which means the installed antivirus on your system is working properly and likely to remove the detected virus. Now, you should go into the antivirus program to check its quarantine or its virus detection logs to view more info about the virus and what action has to be taken.

If your system doesn't having an antivirus or the antivirus that you've on your system is out-of-dated then the system become slow and unreliable, which means your system probably infected by a virus. So, it is the time to have an antivirus software on your computer or you should have to upgrade the antivirus, which is out-of-dated.
 

Well, you can find variety of free antivirus products over net and download them, including Microsoft Security Essentials. As you know the antivirus should ideally have ability to clean up the viruses then fix the problems after installing it. If the antivirus couldn't fix the infections of your computer, then go further the below section to dealing more troublesome infections. If you mistrust on your installed antivirus program, which properly not detecting the viruses, then you may choose another option from other antivirus products. You should not have to install multiple antivirus programs on your system and running them concurrently will degrade the performance and create conflicts on each other.

However, using multi-scanning concept will create applications, and running multiple engines concurrently as single antivirus engine is not 100% effective against every malware threat. Testing agencies have published results on using multi-scanning that each engine uses different scanning methods and updating their malware definitions at various frequencies, and increasing the chances of catching malware before it can affect a system or network. 

Antivirus venders are usually preparing variety of products such as one-time scanning tools, which doing a quick scan and no long processing of installation. ESET Online Scanner is an one-time virus scan program, which offers a quick scan without a long installation process and allows you to scan along with the antivirus that has already installed on your system.

Sometimes, its necessary to disable virus protection, when installing some major updates from Windows such as Windows Service Packs or updating graphic card drivers and so on. Active antivirus protection may partially or completely prevent the installation to some major updates. 

Anti-virus software can cause problems during installation of an OS, when upgrading to a newer version. However, Microsoft recommends that anti-virus software be disabled to avoid conflicts with the upgrade installation process. Technology solutions often have policy assessment applications, which require an up-to-date antivirus is installed and running. If the antivirus application is not recognized by the policy assessment, then the user unable to access the said technology solutions on his system.

Some types of viruses and malware may dig the system deeply, then spread their hooks, which make you harder to kill. In these situation, booting the system in Safe Mode may help you to remove them. To boot into Safe Mode, restart the system then press F8, while the system is booting-up, choose Safe Mode from boot options menu and press enter-key. Run antivirus in Safe Mode then restart the system after you cleaned up. In Safe Mode, Windows would not load third-party software, including the virus program, so you'll be able to run the antivirus program without interfering in background. If you need Internet access, in Safe Mode, choose Safe Mode with Networking in the boot options menu.

Running antivirus, in Safe Mode, wouldn’t work, then try booting from an antivirus rescue CD. When booting into the rescue CD, the antivirus gets a clean environment to scan your hard drive while the virus lies dormant, making it easier to clean infections that make themselves hard to remove. You can download rescue disks from using Kaspersky, Avira and Bitdefender  to remove viruses from computers.

If nothing will work to remove the viruses properly or the malware is destroyed your system badly and Windows is not working properly after the removal of viruses, then its better to revert the system to its factory state.

Most of the computers come with re-store partitions; to access the re-store partitions, you've to press certain key during the time of booting (to get this key, check related computer's manual or consult the shop, where you bought the system). You may also use Windows installer disk to re-install Windows. But keep in mind that re-installing Windows will delete all the files and programs from your system; so, the important data has to be backed-up before re-installing Windows.