What can you do if you suspect your computer is infected and you aren't running any antivirus software?

Answer 1

Well, if you suspect you have a virus, the best thing to do is to get virus protection. Unless you want to do it the old fashion way and reboot (not restart) your computer, but you really won't need to do that unless it's a major virus that anti-virus can't kill, plus you can lose files that way. There are some free anti-virus protection software. One is called AVG it should be free, I recommend getting it off a trusted site like Cnet. NOTE: When you get virus protection, make sure you don't another virus protection enabled with it, it can mess up your computer, so make sure all virus protections are uninstall before downloading a new one.

Answer 2

It completely depends on the type of virus that your computer is infected with. The term virus is used quite generally and people use it to refer to all types of malware. You have 2 choices:

1. You can install an antivirus program. I suggest Kaspersky, it's a very good one. Also download Malwarebytes anti malware as well. Malwarebytes is good for scanning your computer, and it won't interfere with kaspersky.

2. You can try to manually uninstall it. This is much harder and far more dangerous. What you do is you go to task manager and go to the processes tab. You find the process belonging to the malicous program and end it. You then download auoruns by sysinternals and go to the "logon" tab. Somewhere in there, will be the program's startup entry, delete it. Once you've both ended the process and removed the startup entry for it, you can be 100% sure that it won't be bothering you again.