How to remove or disinfect the viruses in your computer: October 2014

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

How to remove yuyun Cantix virus easily.

For the average user.
Files created by the virus: autorun.inf, Microsoft.Ink, Desktop.ini, all drives will be affected by this virus.

Download Microsoft Security Essential and extract on the desired path. Click here for 32 bit and 64 bit.
Install MSEIntall32/MSEinstall64, Note! after the installation do not restart the computer just download the updates, after updating the MSE will show updated then do a quick scan.
Optional: While scanning, download these utilities Cure Utility or Quicklock . This utility will restore the task manager, registry editor, folder option and run. If Cure.exe won't run, download Dot net framework. this app needs dot net 2 framework. To download get here at filehippo.
Extract Cure.exe or Quicklock, on windows 7 right click then Run as administrator.on Cure.exe click Heal button then ok. On Quicklock, if the task manager and registry editor is disabled it will show the checkboxes were all checked, to restore them uncheck the checkboxes then apply.
Click run or windows icon + r, on the text box type MSConfig then hit enter, select startup tab uncheck all except Microsoft security client then click ok.

Msconfig Utility
Reboot the computer, if desired make a full scan to all drives if you have drive d:, e: and so on,
anyway, mse is always on guard.all done :)!

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First what is a Computer VIRUS?

A computer "VIRUS" is an acronym which contain many meanings (V.I.R.U.S.) a Vital Information Resources UnderSiege or a Computer program/ codes that can command to copy or to replicate itself and then infect a computer from one to another without the permission or knowledge of the user. This computer virus can be very harmful and damaging to the computer system, it affects root files, and installed program files. A computer virus can make risk of hacker threats, attacks and opens the door to even more threats, like downloaded files and software installations. Once you found the symptoms, then it can be counterattacked with the appropriate antivirus software and security patches, but first it needs to be installed before the virus infect the system. Installing a powerful antivirus program is a must. you can also check @ Wikipedia.

Symptoms

If your computer is infected with this malicious viruses, it will begin to shows some common symptoms that identifies a virus is present like modified file sizes, contents, or the hogging system resources. The unaccounted use of RAM which shows slowing of your computer.

How to remove the virus in your computer

Tools

Tools needed to remove the computer virus that are now available on the Internet.

From sysinternals, the powerful

Process Explorer By Mark Russinovich (optional) if you want to know what process is eating up your RAM but a powerful tool to kill a process of a malicious program.

Quick lock 1.0 By Quang Anh Do. A small utility to Enable/Disable Task Manager, Command Prompt and Registry Editor, This Utility is a big help to Enable Registry Editor, This is done for manual deletion of malicious program.

and the Virus Removal Tools from different Antivirus Company

Avast,Avg,Avira,Bit defender,Eset, Norton,Trenmicro and Kaspersky.

USB Protection
For USB flash drive protection against malware and viruses use this free utility from sordum.org