How to remove or disinfect the viruses in your computer: April 2015

Sunday, April 12, 2015

For quick adware and malware removal without installing anti-malware

Note! Anti-virus is still needed.

Removal of the following without installing anti-malware.
Adware (advertising Softwares)
PUP (Potentially Undesirable Program)
Toolbars
Hijacker (Hijack of the browser's homepage or search engine)

Tools needed
Download:
Bitdefender ART and AdwCleaner
Compatible with Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 in 32 & 64 bit.

Nowadays PUP or potentially unwanted programs are commonly installed on computers of unaware PC users, it is because these apps were bundled with some common freeware applications used by most consumers looking for free software, most of this apps consumes more resource than your legitimate programs.
To prevent this program install in your PC's make sure you read any agreement before you click yes or agree while installing the program.

Signs of malware and adware installed on your computer:

In the toolbar and in the start page

Hijacker

The default search engine you use

In process

adwareonprocess

Pop-ups

SpeedUpMyPc

What to do:

Download and Run AdwCleaner

BitDefender ART

BitDefender ART scanning

Adware and malware found while scanning

Bitdefender Adware removal tool

Adwcleaner found adware

AdwCleaner

After scanning the removal tools will notify you to reboot just confirm to reboot.

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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