How to delete viruses from different versions of Windows

Nov 2
08:21

2015

Peter Partridge

Peter Partridge

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Today, some few people can be proud of, that they have not encountered viruses. Considering an amount of contaminated websites on the Internet, and a plenty of malicious programs, that overfill the web, the risk to infect your PC is enormously big. Actually, most of the users' PCs are infected by viruses, but users don't point it out, because the virus comes out gradually. Don't leave malware without an attention, and remove it completely!

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What is a malware infection

Today,How to delete viruses from different versions of Windows Articles some few people can be proud of, that they have not encountered viruses. Considering an amount of contaminated websites on the Internet, and a plenty of malicious programs, that overfill the web, the risk to infect your PC is enormously big. Actually, most of the users' PCs are infected by viruses, but users don't point it out, because the virus comes out gradually. For example, a man bought a PC 6 months ago, but decided to save money on the anti-viral software. The user watches as his system becomes dumb bit by bit, it needs 2-3 minutes to boot, autorun menu is packed by varied savers and converters. That's a standard set of a user, who uses a PC and the web, just for watching videos and chatting. Such a user doesn’t try to find out what's a matter with the computer, he merely accepts the situation as a given: computer is broken. Actually, the PC might start to crack not sooner than after 2-4 years of operation in normal regime, and without errors. When system backpedals so much, that user can make a cup of coffee and drink it, while computer launches - man purchases a new computer, because the first one is "spoiled". Either, the user goes to the computer workshop, where he pays 100-150 dollars for complete cleaning of the PC. In fact, these problems can be solved by spending less money, or not wasting it in general! Here I'll train you, how to do it.

How to clean a computer from junk files fast, efficiently and cheaply

Primarily, man has to remove the errors from the registry, delete garbage files, and clean accessible memory space. There's plenty of special programs for this, and the most effective one amongst them is Piriform CCleaner, with Registry Cleaner and Registry Defrag extensions. As well, that function can be performed by an antiviral utility Qihoo 360 Total Security. These measures are, actually, the correction of faults, caused by improper uninstall of utilities, and their improper function. A clogged registry, as well as an abundance of fragmented data on the hard disc, greatly dumbs the system, even with no concern of malware. Start CCleaner, and await, till it will perform its work. This utility allows a report on the amount of trash files removed, and about the acceleration of your computer, which is supposed, as an effect of cleaning. When you’ll read the report, you won’t believe, how much trash was there, on your PC, but CCleaner is not lying to you, all the reports are truthful. You've just got rid of few GB of garbage, so now you actually must remove malware.

How to uninstall the malicious programs

If you have deleted the trash data with the help of Qihoo 360 Total Security, you don't even need to install something. Besides that, I can advise an utility Malwarebytes AntiMalware, the fineness of which is not inferior to Total Security’s, and, in some cases actually surpasses it. So, man has to load the shown anti-virus, install it, run the scanning process, and just go for a walk, or do something else. If you hadn't any antiviral software installed on the PC before, scan may take 15-20 minutes. When the scanning process is complete, the catalog of malicious software becomes available, and you have to review it. Turn all software, that does not cause any questions, to the list of security programs, and uninstall the other. After the deletion is fulfilled and the computer is restarted, you have to run the scan again, because some viruses cannot be found at the first scanning. In superior effect, you must use both of the above listed programs to inspect the computer by rotation. There are viruses which cannot be uninstalled, with the use of anti-virus programs, and if you always got one name in the catalog of threats, it is right to remove the harmful software by hand. The by-hand uninstall process is slightly diverse for distinct operating systems, but for example we will take the very prevalent Windows 8:

  1. Point to the upper-right corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer down, and tap Search.
  2. Enter control panel in the search box, and then click Control Panel.
  3. Under View by:, select Large Icons, and then click Programs and features.
  4. Click the program, and then click Uninstall.
  5. Follow the instructions on the screen.
  6. Delete Program from Control Panel:
  • Start
  • Control Panel
  • Programs
  • Programs and Features
  • Uninstall a program
  • Select Program and press Uninstall

 

After the scan and manual deletion of malware, you will have to start CCleaner once more, and then you can enjoy swift and stable working of the system, with no giving out a copper! If you need more info about the removal from different versions of Windows, please review the  full article. There, you'll find the ways to get rid of unwanted programs from any version of Windows that is presently actual.