How can I clean my computer of viruses? Tips and Tricks

Known only one way, giving a one hundred percent guarantee that your computer will never be infected with viruses. This is to buy a device, bring it home and, without getting out of the package, hide in a dark closet. Forever. In all other cases, if you are an active Internet user, constantly wander through its expanses, download various information, insert flash drives, disks, etc. into the computer, sooner or later you will catch the malware. Therefore, you must know how to clean your computer of viruses.

After all, there is no universal antivirus that could protect against all existing dangers. If the defense of government and defense sites of the most developed countries is hacked, what about ordinary computers?

In order to solve the problem of how to remove the virus from the device as rarely as possible, the antivirus program must at the very least be installed on the latter. At least free, which is enough in the network.

There are few such viruses that can cause irreparable damage to the operating system, but here it is easy to reduce its performance, efficiency, and delete important files.

What do you need to do at the first signs of the "illness" of your device? We will proceed from the fact that you still had legitimate anti-virus software installed. So, to clean the computer of viruses, do the following. Disconnect it from all networks, reboot, and during the reboot, press F8. The result is a safe mode.

We start the antivirus, configure the scanning of local disks, without forgetting the options for dealing with the infected objects, and click "start". After the scanning process is completed, which can last from 30 minutes to several hours, we will restart the system again. The result is a clean device.

Sometimes such treatment of the computer is impossible, because the system is very infected. Then you need another computer, to which we connect our hard drive and scan it. After such a procedure, the files of your OS may be corrupted. You need to use the "Live CD" drive to return the system to its original state. Or for Windows 7, for example, use the "native" installation disc.

Do not forget, by the way, before all these procedures to save all important documents and files on a third-party device.

It happens that it is impossible to clean the computer of viruses using standard methods. Then comes the turn of third-party utilities. This article does not in any way promote any product. Just as an example are two of these utilities, also free. This is the well-known AVZ and Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool.

They are very simple to use, require minimum intervention. The first one can be updated each time, the second one needs to be downloaded again. Run, select the disks for scanning, configure - and go!

Sometimes utilities do not help to clean the computer of viruses. In this case, you can use the above "Live CD". But this method has a drawback - it removes everything that was installed on the device: programs and files.

Here we discussed not too complicated methods of "treating" a computer that almost any user can cope with. In the case of a very serious infection, it is advisable to contact specialists. It is possible that only the reinstallation of the operating system will help.