cleaning up..

November 26, 2008 7:05pm CST
hey guys, how do i clean up strong viruses wherein your computer has already been greatly affected..? how do i clean them up when my OS is either XP or Vista?
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8 responses
@rosdimy (3926)
• Malaysia
27 Nov 08
When a virus has managed to infect a computer, installing an anti virus to clean it up may not work. This is because there are viruses which can make themselves hidden or white listed during the installation process. As a result when we do a full scan they are not detected. Usually I chose one of the options below. 1) Use another PC or hard disk to do the cleaning up. If using another PC with the same operating system and a good anti virus program, then you have to dismantle the hard disk of you PC, set it to 'slave', and make it part of the second PC's system. Do a full scan. Alternatively take the hard disk of the second PC and insert it into your PC. It should remain as 'master'. 2) Second alternative is to do a full format and reinstall everything. rosdimy
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• China
27 Nov 08
you alao can backup you important files to a move harddriver, then format the hard disk of you computer and install a new system and relatively tools. At last, you should do a mirror system with GHOST or some other tools. If you have the mirror system, next time you can restore in time.
1 person likes this
• China
27 Nov 08
you alao can backup you important files to a move harddriver, then format the hard disk of you computer and install a new system and relatively tools. At last, you should do a mirror system with GHOST or some other tools. If you have the mirror system, next time you can restore in time.
@legend4u (1019)
• India
27 Nov 08
try to install a latest updated anti virus it will help you. Keep in mind that "prevention is better than cure" so keep a good anti virus and as you have internet connection keep on updating.
2 Dec 08
thanks guys!!! you've all been a great help..!!
@underdogtoo (9579)
• Philippines
1 Dec 08
I use avg antivirus and it seems to work fine with strong viruses. You could give it a try. Cheers!!
• United States
28 Nov 08
Many times, unfortunately, it's completely impossible to clean your machine of infected viruses. One story goes that Bill Gates found one of his close friends PCs was infected with over 100 viruses, but even his best engineers couldn't clean it without wiping the drive. The best free anti virus software, though, is Avira Antivir. It will go a long way toward making your computer clean. I can recommend it because it has done the best in both professional tests and my own informal trials with an infected machine, despite being run AFTER AVG and a couple other programs that people swear by.
@moneymaya (901)
• India
27 Nov 08
hi friend if your computer has greatly affected the you have to proceed as below : first you will have to download a lattest antivirus or the antivrus you are using just update its and use only latters version of the antivirus scan your whole computer , it may take time so better way start scan your whole computer of one night and most specially your drive in which you OS has installed that must be free from virus and inspite of that yours system is not working ok then the final way is to formatting specially your Drive in which you have installed the Operating System... after formatting at very first you have to again repeat the first step if your antivirus is not able to detect the virus then according to me the best and availabe on the net Antivirus is : -Kasperkey Internet Security -Avg Antivirus you can use one of the above antivirus which are using currently successfully... Happy Mylotting :-)
• India
2 Dec 08
Try using some good antivirus softwares like CA,NOD32. There are some antivirus softwares like Bitdefender which makes your pc slow but it can remove virus.
@vicky30 (4766)
• India
27 Nov 08
You can download a free antivirus to clean up the viruses.I use avira antivir free antivirus.It has regular updates from the internet.It also has a guard to protect from infected dvds and pen drives.It can also detect rootkits from the computer.Its totally free to use.You can download the antivirus from http://www.filehippo.com/download_antivir/
• United States
27 Nov 08
Well you must have antivirus and malware softwars updaten in your computer and you will dont have problems to much problems with virus, i got kaspersky antivirus for internet and i dont have problems.... Have a nice day and hope you will have a very good week ;) see you and have a happy thanksgiving day, bye bye :D