Livalil
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First, shut off your computer, then turn it back on and boot into Safe Mode. From there, perform an antivirus scan. If the virus comes up again try to use your AV software to delete it. If that doesn't work, shut down again and this time boot into Safe Mode With Networking. In Safe Mode, go online and download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and use it to scan your computer. It should be able to find and clean whatever infection is there. If the program is active in Safe Mode and still interfering with everything, then download Hiren's Boot CD (http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd) and burn the .iso to a disk. Now put this disk in your computer, and boot from it (don't boot from Windows). Hiren's Boot CD comes with literally hundreds of free software programs with recovery tools, disk imaging/formatting tools, diagnostic tools, forensic tools, antivirus tools, and many, many more. Use this to clean the infection. If STILL nothing works, then use HBCD (Hiren's Boot CD) to back up any vital documents, photos, etc. (no programs) that you absolutely need to keep to an external drive. Once those are backed up, use select "Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN)" from HBCD's menu. This will boot the computer with DBAN. DBAN, as its name implies, boots the computer and "nukes" the hard drive. This completely erases all data even more securely than formatting the disk does. This should remove all traces of the infection so you can reinstall Windows cleanly and put the documents you kept back on (making sure none of them are infected, of course).
If you want to remain more-or-less immune to malware, use one of the Linux distros. They are very good, and there is very, very little malware for Linux. The only way a malicious program could to any harm to a Linux machine would be if you were to purposefully give the program your root password (which is kind of like the Admin password in Windows, except it actually protects your computer). For a list of what Linux has that Windows does't, you can check out this post I put on Pastebin in response to another Yahoo! Answers question (http://pastebin.com/ViGJTc4F).
First, shut off your computer, then turn it back on and boot into Safe Mode. From there, perform an antivirus scan. If the virus comes up again try to use your AV software to delete it. If that doesn't work, shut down again and this time boot into Safe Mode With Networking. In Safe Mode, go online and download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and use it to scan your computer. It should be able to find and clean whatever infection is there. If the program is active in Safe Mode and still interfering with everything, then download Hiren's Boot CD (http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd) and burn the .iso to a disk. Now put this disk in your computer, and boot from it (don't boot from Windows). Hiren's Boot CD comes with literally hundreds of free software programs with recovery tools, disk imaging/formatting tools, diagnostic tools, forensic tools, antivirus tools, and many, many more. Use this to clean the infection. If STILL nothing works, then use HBCD (Hiren's Boot CD) to back up any vital documents, photos, etc. (no programs) that you absolutely need to keep to an external drive. Once those are backed up, use select "Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN)" from HBCD's menu. This will boot the computer with DBAN. DBAN, as its name implies, boots the computer and "nukes" the hard drive. This completely erases all data even more securely than formatting the disk does. This should remove all traces of the infection so you can reinstall Windows cleanly and put the documents you kept back on (making sure none of them are infected, of course).
If you want to remain more-or-less immune to malware, use one of the Linux distros. They are very good, and there is very, very little malware for Linux. The only way a malicious program could to any harm to a Linux machine would be if you were to purposefully give the program your root password (which is kind of like the Admin password in Windows, except it actually protects your computer). For a list of what Linux has that Windows does't, you can check out this post I put on Pastebin in response to another Yahoo! Answers question (http://pastebin.com/ViGJTc4F).
What is a Computer Virus?
miss_IS
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A computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer.
For more info about it, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus
A computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer.
For more info about it, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus
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