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What to do if your computer is infected with a virus.
Sometimes even an experienced user will not realise that a computer is infected with a virus. This is because viruses can hide among regular files, or camoflage themselves as standard files
There are a number of symptoms which indicate that your computer has been infected. If you notice "strange things" happening to your computer. Your computer freezes frequently or encounters errors.
Your computer slows down when programs are started.
The operating system is unable to load.
Files and folders have been deleted or their content has changed.
Your hard drive is accessed too often (the light on your main unit flashes rapidly).
Microsoft internet Explorer freezes or functions erratically e.g. you cannot close the application window.
What you should do if you notice symptoms of infection.
Disconnect your computer from the Internet.
If your computer is connected to a Local Area Network, disconnect it.
If the computer cannot boot from the hard drive (error at startup), try to start the system in Safe Mode or from the Windows boot disk.
Before taking any action, back up all critical data to an external drive (a floppy disk, CD, flash memory, etc.).
Install antivirus software if you do not have it installed and download the latest updates.
Perform a full system scan.
In the vast majority of cases, personal computers are infected by worms, Trojan programs, or viruses. In most cases, lost data can be successfully recovered.
A good antivirus solution will provide the option to disinfect for infected objects, quarantine possibly infected objects and delete worms and Trojans. A report will provide the names of the malicious software discovered on your computer.
In some cases, you may need a special utility to recover data that have been corrupted. Visit your antivirus software vendor's site, and search for information about the virus, Trojan or worm which has infected your computer. Download any special utilities if these are available
Unfortunately, some viruses cannot be removed from infected objects. Some of these viruses may corrupt information on your computer when infecting, and it may not be possible to restore this information. If a virus cannot be removed from a file, the file should be deleted.
If you cannot boot from your hard drive (error at startup), try to boot from the Windows rescue disk. If the system can not recognize your hard drive, the virus has damaged the disk partition table. In this case, try to recover the partition table using scandisk, a standard Windows program. If this does not help, contact a computer data recovery service. Your computer vendor should be able to provide contact details for such services.
If you have a disk management utility installed, some of your logical drives may be unavailable when you boot from the rescue disk. In this case, you should disinfect all accessible drives, reboot from the system hard drive and disinfect the remaining logical drives.
Recover corrupted files and applications using backup copies after you have scanned the drive containing this data.
Check the integrity of the file system on your hard drive (using CHKDSK program) and repair file system errors. If there are a large number of errors, you must backup the most important files to removable storage media before fixing the errors.
Use other standard Windows tools, for example, the scandisk utility.
After you have removed the infection from your computer.
Perform a full system scan and if you are using XP, make sure system restore is turned off or you might infect your computer all over again.
Make sure that you have appropriately configured antivirus software installed on your computer.
Re-connect your computer to the Internet........
What else can I help you with?
How do you get a virus deleted from your computer?
You need a virus killer.
A storage area for files that have been deleted?
Files that have been deleted from the computer by the user can either be deleted from the hard drive directly or sent to the recycling bin. Files that are detected by your anti-virus software are often sent to a quarantine folder on your hard drive.
What is Imsmn?
it is a computer virus, which gets copied to your program files>video activeX access and which could not be deleted. each time you try to delete it, it will replicate
Is virus an operating system?
A virus is a file that was programmed to harm your computer. It may be transferred to your Operating System (the environment which runs your computer) and can be hidden within program files, system files, or your account files. Viruses can severely damage your computer, so purchase a good antivirus program, such as Norton Internet Security 2011 (for windows). If you run Macintosh, you already have virus protection.
You got a new virus it is called mypictures.zip how do you delete it it comes through msn and sends itself to all your online contacts you foun dit by searching your computer and deleted it but it kee?
Hello! I have delete it! The virus create an infected copy of EXPLORER.EXE in the folders: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 (or C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32) and C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DLLCACHE (or C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DLLCACHE) To remove it, start Windows in protected mode, then delete the files EXPLORER.EXE on these folders (there are hidden system files, then you have to enable to display hidden system files). That's all !!!!!!! Very easy. Aldito. This worm virus is probably running over existing IM files. Try to update your IM application and it will run over the virus files.
Do you need to fix your computer after a a virus has been deleted from a mac?
no
What can you do if there are virus in computer?
You could use Norton anti-virus and scan your computer and delete the files, or if you know the files then just delete it. You can also use windows defender. Just deleting a file containing a virus is often insufficient, as many viruses infiltrate the registry and other configurations in Windows. In the worst case, you may need to reformat the hard drive and reinstall Windows. Use a professional, modern anti-virus tools - most of them can handle most viruses.
How can you tell your computer has a virus?
Look for suspicious activity and popups such as " Buy this product to get rid of viruses". Viruses also cause strange activity, deleted files, other strange behavior. A good anti-virus program will also alert you to any virus/malware that has been detected and then deleted. Use a good anti-virus vendor to eliminate it.
Why do I need to backup my files on Windows 7?
"Backing up files is not a new phenomenon to Windows 7. Backing up your files enable you to keep a record of all your important files and information in case your computer crashes, gets a virus, is stolen or any other unfortunate incident."
How do you remove the virus psw.banker.6.bc?
I had this virus in my computer, I have tried several antiviruses and anti Adware programs, they found iehndl.dll and they was able to delete it. BUT after a while, this dll was at the same place C:\Windows. I have mentioned that there are big number of tmp files in c:\Windows and when I was deleting these files, one of them was locked. So, i booted to the SAFE MODE with MSDOS (I have got MSWin XPPro) and manually deleted all tmp files by: cd \windows dir *.tmp (only for checking num of files) del *.tmp dir *.tmp(only for checking num of files) Of course, I did a lot of cleaning by antiviruses and I manually deleted a lot of objects, but only after deleting this tmp files this virus stopped bothering me ( because antivirus software showed a window to ask me what to do with dll every time I was typing anything). So, good luck, because after two days it was there again, but after deleting tmp it was ok (for a while :-).
Why can't I delete viruses in my computer even after I press delete?
Most viruses are embedded in various files (such as images and programs) and when you open those files, the virus, which is actually a program embedded within the file is executed and create files on your computer which cause various problems (the problems are very specific to what type of virus you get). So deleting the file in which the virus was embedded will not remove the virus. The files created by the virus are often created in "secure" locations on your hard-drive, locations which are responsible for maintaining your operating system (Windows) and can not be deleted by hand (unless you have admin rights for your user). Here is where Anti Virus software comes in. This type of software have the ability to remove viruses from these locations, and if they cant, they "quarantine" them (shield them, making them unable to do harm).
How can a virus damage your PC?
it depends on what virus it is if it is just a basic easy to get rid of virus then you should just use a antivirus program to get rid of it, the damage that a virus can cause: it works its way into the windows system and wipes it completely and then no system information can be read and then the computer is no good but that is if you have a windows xp or vista disk depending on what system you want to put it on(xp or vista) can put back the windows system files back on the computer
