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Computer Virus: How To Remove It

Ughhhh! If your PC has ever been infected - or worse, if it's infected right now - you're probably groaning. Yes it's a pain, but the good news is: you can remove viruses yourself, for free.
 

STEP 1:  Back Up Documents, Photos and Videos.
Save your important data to an external drive. Be sure to scan this drive and its contents after you remove the virus; you don't want to re-infect your computer after the clean-up. 

STEP 2: Reboot in Safe Mode

37 Comments

Thank you Nasa for the heads up!

13 months ago

You are most welcome Eugine.

13 months ago

That's good way of removing virus, but I would suggesting using Avast Pro or rKill to remove and malware, I once had problems with a virus program from screensaver src file, it doesn't appear in my windows folder even I have open the hidden files. So, I try rKill and Avast, they are manage to kill the malware and save my laptop from another re-formatted...

13 months ago

As long it's free, I may use it. thanks Nur "Aziyati. :)

8 months ago

Yes, they are free...I'm not an IT expert either but as long as those software are free, I will use them to maintain my laptop...I'm sure, you'll find them very helpful...

8 months ago

good tips Nasa...lama benor saya tak scan for virus...good reminder too

13 months ago

great post thank you:)

13 months ago

@Nur Aziyati, I am not a IT expert, thank you for sharing alternative virus scanners.
@matt weber, eloklah sesekali cuci computer tu.
@ cherry tastylip, thanks for visiting my blogpost.

13 months ago

thank you for sharing the information...kids tend to download lots of songs and games from the net along with viruses etc...i have this as a regular problem

13 months ago

It's true renu kakkar, thanks for reading my post.

13 months ago

really you shared very informative post. thanks

13 months ago

Thanks for sharing this awesome information. Very useful.

13 months ago

Great tips Nasa..Every one week i will scan my laptop.Informative post

13 months ago

Thanks for your support Muhammad Nawaz, Patrick Jarman & sina isa.

13 months ago

its awesome like that

13 months ago

Removing a virus can sometimes be very difficult especially when the virus scanner software is infected. Things get very complicate then if you don't want to reinstall the system.
Anyway... Good first aid article and prevent tips.

13 months ago

Thank you Afshaan,
Christian Eckar- Thanks for your support.

13 months ago

Nice tips

13 months ago

computer virus is a hadache now adays.. but your post solve some problems of viruses

13 months ago

nice

13 months ago

this is a very helpful and informative post
you have given me more ideas about this kind of matter as I am not a genius when it comes to computer ^_^
thanks for sharing

13 months ago

Some more hints:
- sometimes you can only remove the visur while you scan it in another computer, but be aware it can also damage the windows, so you might need to repair that afterwards.
- always have backups of all your data, some viruses do not care what they destroy.
- never keep your live virus collection on your production computer (one I let over 2000 spieces have fun on my computer)

Did you know that there are viruses that remove the others. Different virus writing gangs created them agains the rivals... :)

13 months ago

Thanks a lot for the useful advice.
Have a nice day. :)

8 months ago

@simply paula, Tamas Roth, Basharat Jehan, Heaven boy & Kami Sheh-
thanks for your wonderful comments.

12 months ago

Thanks Nasa for this wonderful article. Its not easy to remove virus as they enter your memory and registry and some of viruses do not become active instantly.

Thanks again for sharing

12 months ago

very useful information, thanks for sharing it

12 months ago

nice tips

12 months ago

@Anil Sharma, Pedro Garcia, Abdullaha Abul & Szaboics Titko- Computer is like a living thing, can be infected by many unknown viruses that cause desease.

12 months ago

When I got a virus here at FanBox, I'm not sure if it came from the ads I moderated because when I reopen my account, the internet security antivirus gave me a warning then I can no longer go visit blogs and even my profile. I had scanned immediately and successfully removed the worm. And had done the things you mentioned above, pressing F2 or F8 when opening. It's almost 3 weeks I can't use my laptop as the drivers doesn't load when connecting to the internet. And even now, I still have a limited access to this site. Viruses are really harmful!

8 months ago

Cool Ayz,
Try remove your computer 'cookies' by using CCleaner. Download it from ccleaner.com, you may choose the free version. It helps me to reduce some unneeded weights on my computer.

8 months ago

thanks Nasa! :)

8 months ago

informative post thank you for sharing.

8 months ago

thanks. :)

8 months ago

Thanks Nur 'Aziati, I appreciate it. :))

8 months ago

thanks for your helpful tips

8 months ago

My pleasure.:)

8 months ago