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How can you clean viruses out your computer without spending money on programs?
January 17, 2011
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Don’t waste your time finding millions of antiviruses, just stick with a basic one, try Avira Antivir, not my recommended for most of the time but Antivir has an excellent database that triumphs over AVG, avast and some others, if you don’t like it try Norton for 15 days to clear out the viruses, avast!, AVG, OneCare, and don’t say Norton sucks because I used to think it sucks, but Norton has won lots of VB100% awards and last failed a couple years ago, and Norton can detect pretty much any common threat (if you hate it, use Norton Security Scan, found in Google Pack), Kaspersky is also advisable, but Eset NOD32 is almost what you need. If your cousins have that many viruses, give them SpywareBlaster to protect from the Zlob and spyware (try Ad-aware, Spybot S&D, SpywareDoctor Starter Pack, they will have adware), and use the free antivirus listed (avast!, AVG, Antivir, Norton Security Scan, OneCare, also, PC Tools Antivirus, BitDefender or CA Antivirus) (G-Data and Webwasher- Gateway is also good I heard from my sources)
Unfortunately there are no step by step instructions for removing a virus. It can take even a professional like myself hours to get a machine back into shape after it has been infected. Often the best solution is to simply wipe the machine and start over.
That being said, start by downloading, installing, updating, and running a complete system scan with both SpyBot and AVG:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/
http://free.avg.com/ww.download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition
You may have to run these scans (and reboot your machine) several times. It is best to perform the scans with your Internet disconnected. Also, be sure to turn on the Tea Timer which comes with SpyBot–it will help you see if the virus is trying to make changes in your registry (which is bad).
Finally, if you get to the end of your rope with this you may want to consider switching to Ubuntu. You can download and run a Live CD without installing anything:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
Avast 4.8.1201 Professional Edition is a complete ICSA & Checkmark certified antivirus, Checkmark certified anti-spyware & anti-rootkit software package for corporate and advanced home use. avast Professional Edition includes an on demand scanner with two user interfaces, a skinnable simple interface: just select what you want to scan and in which way and press the play button, an enhanced user interface: Outlook like UI allows users to set any feature of Avast, prepare and run tasks, store and check task results, on access scanner: special providers to protect: most available e-mail clients, instant messaging: ICQ or Miranda, network traffic: lightweight firewall, P2P protection for Kazaa, BitTorrent, Web shield: all HTTP traffic, script blocker. avast Professional Edition is available in 32 languages. Small, true incremental, updates are downloaded and installed automatically. Version 4.8.1201 is complete anti-malware protection.
* avast! now contains a built-in anti-rootkit protection
* avast! now comes with a built-in anti-spyware protection
* new self-defense function to prevent active malware from terminating avast! processes as well as corrupting avast! files and registry items
* scanners now display a progress of current scan (percentage of work done)
* fixed a vulnerability in AavmKer4.sys kernel-mode driver (problem applies to Windows NT/2000/XP, 32-bit only); special thanks to Tobias Klein
* improvements in boot-time scanner (detection & removal of hidden or hard to delete files)
* boot-time scanner will not start when booting into Safe Mode (the program was “invisible” in that case, no progress/messages could be seen)
* improvements in many unpackers
* ACE and RAR unpackers now work even in boot-time scanner
* IM Shield: added support for QQ
* improvements in handling of NTFS streams
* Internet Mail provider now displays the name of the sending/receiving program in the tooltip of its taskbar icon
* implemented a protection against false positives in critical system files
* removed a small memory leak in one of avast! drivers (Windows Vista and XP 64-bit only)
* added support for 64-bit WHS connector (available in WHS Power Pack 1)
* greatly improved performance of the updater, especially in cases where many increments are being downloaded (e.g. avast! installations with outdated virus definitions)
* silent installation now also includes scheduled tasks, if any
* resolved a compatibility issue with Acronis TrueImage (XP 64-bit only)
* compatibility tests with Vista SP1 and XP SP3
DOWNLOAD Avast! 4.8.1201 Professional Edition
http://rapidshare.com/files/126819462/Avast__4.8.1201.rar
http://www.srnmicro.com
First do an online scan and clean with http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html AND http://www.ewido.net/en/onlinescan/
Now it’s time to replace that miserable insecurity software that you use; download the installers for
browser – http://www.opera.com/ – use this instead that malware magnet IE
antivirus – http://www.avast.com/
antispyware – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=435BFCE7-DA2B-4A6A-AFA4-F7F14E605A0D&displaylang=en/
…………….. – http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
firewall – http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/
They are all the best in their category and FREE.
Unplug the internet line, uninstall the junk and install these (if necessary in safe mode) one by one with each necessary reboot done.
Reconnect the line and update them (Spybot has it manual).
That’s all. Now admire how fast and safe (only if you never use IE again) your pc is.
go to http://www.download.com then in the search bar type in AVG Free and download its great stuff cleans the crap right off your computer
google for AVG and Trojan Remover and download it. Install it. Once installed be sure to update the virus database list. Good luck