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Posted by Nikoletta Ventseslavova

Read if: you want to get rid of malicious malware successfully

There are many examples of malware in the wild and probably most of us have become a victim of a phishing attack, because today the probability of catching a cyber virus is much higher than that of a human virus if someone with influenza sneezes in your face. Malware spies, corrupts data or gives control of your machine to someone who is miles away. It not only brings our life to a halt, but is also expensive and difficult to remove.

The hackers who create spyware make the removal of their nasty programs as difficult as they can. Furthermore, there are types of spyware that download and install additional components by hiding pieces of code from Windows to make deletion almost impossible. As one of malware's victims I decided to select the methods which wipe out most forms of malicious programs. [note: if these measures don't recover your system's health, you will need professional assistance or you will need to reformat your hard drive]

Determine if your system is infected. Look for these symptoms:

- If the performance is slower than normal and there are no other factors causing it, like running too many applications with little system memory; or running buggy software that does not free up the memory it uses after you close it;

- If your Web browser suddenly changes its appearance, or automatically goes to a site you don't recognize;

- The PC is unstable and crashes often

- When you try to access files but you receive a message saying they are corrupted.

Most people don't know that a virus, or a piece of spyware is dangerous only when it is running in the system or if it has the capacity to be initialized [this is true. I don't even bother with anti virus software and I never get viruses because I don't open the attachments on emails if they look suspicious ed.]. You will need the latest versions of the following tools, which will help you detect malware processes: Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool (Microsoft updates it every second Tuesday of each month); Microsoft's Windows Defender ; An antivirus program (in case you don't have already installed one, download Avira). Some kinds of malware are designed to ban your access to the websites that host these tools and you will not be able to download them. In this case, download the programs to another PC and copy the installers to a portable USB drive, then plug it into the infected machine.

Run the Malicious Software Removal Tool. Its aim is to find the most severe types of malware and viruses. If it doesn't catch anything suspicious, run the Windows Defender, and choose the Full Scan option. When it finds an infection, it will give you on-screen instructions to delete the noxious files. Read the rest here: http://www.anotherway.org/2011/11/removing-malware/

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