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All Just about Computer VirusIs Your Computer Sick?
by:
Jim Edwards
© Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com
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Viruses and spyware ordinarily show up on your computer one of
two ways.
Either they invade your system with a frontal assault like
the Huns assaultive the Romans, or they sneak in a back door
like a cat burglar.
Either way, once a virus or piece of spyware gets on your
system, effort it off can rate harder than activity a severe
case of trench foot!
Viruses, malicious programs designed to disrupt normal
computing, and spyware, programs intended to virtually
"spy"
on your activities, can enter your computer a number of
ways.
Most unremarkably they enter your system through an email
attachment, by sharing files with an infected computer by
disk, as a "ride along" with a 3rd party program you
install, or through a "back door" port in your computer.
Regardless of how they get on your system, once in place,
they cause no end of headaches and frustration.
The following represent typical signs you may suffer from
infection by a virus or piece of spyware.
Your computer starts acting oddly by doing things it ne'er
did previously.
Your electronic equipment
starts trying to dial out to the Net
without
you initiating a surfriding session.
You notice that files start disappearing, the system stalls,
runs slowly, or even as crashes frequently.
Your computer takes increasingly longer to boot up every
time you start it or you notice that your accessible hard
drive space has disappeared. Strange popup windows appear,
even once
you're not surfriding the web, or you delete a
program and it "magically" reappears next time you boot the
system.
If you suspect you a virus or a piece of spyware has invaded
your computer, follow these steps to 1st identify and then
delete the violative
code:
Step 1 - Back up your important files, but remember to scan
these files for viruses before reinstalling to avoid
accidentally re-infecting your system.
Step 2 - Update your anti-virus definitions and perform a
scan of your hard drive.
If you don't carry virus protection, or you suspect your
anti-virus computer code got corrupted somehow, then log on to
www.pandasoftware.com and use the free Panda Active Scan
service to check your hard driving for viruses.
Follow the manual for quarantining and removing the
offending files.
Step 3 - Scan your hard driving with an adware, scumware, or
spyware detection and removal tool like Adaware
www.lavasoft.de/support/download/ or Spybot
http://spybot.safer-networking.de/.
Step 4 - In many an cases, once
the virus or spyware program
gets installed with a free utility or game you transfer
from
the Web, you must ordinarily uninstall the utility or game to
finally get rid of the problem once and for all.
Step 5 - Avoid re-infection by keeping your anti-virus and
firewall up-to-date at all times.
As a last resort, if you run into a program you just can't
get rid of, but can numbers out the violative
file's name, do
a search for the file name on Google.com. Often you wish
find you're not the 1st victim and may get valuable proposal
for improvement
up your system.
However, be really careful of the information you find and
think doubly before modifying any system files.
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