How to remove viruses,malwares and spyware using free tools.
November 6th, 2008 | by admin |
Keeping up PC clean and uptodate is always a handy job for the beginners.There are severals thing which you need to monitor and keep up to date in order to run your PC smoothly.Viruses,malware or spyware decrease the speed of computer and can be responsible for you data loss.Some of the well know anitspyware and antivirus softwares are not free but there are lots of other free tools available for you to keep your PC clean.I found some great tips written by Jeebus to clean your PC using free tools.
1. Disable system restore, most viruses go into system restore and to get them out it has to be disabled.
Windows XP:
Steps to turn off System Restore
1. Click Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
2. In the System Properties dialog box, click the System Restore tab.
3. Click to select the Turn off System Restore check box. Or, click to select the Turn off System Restore on all drives check box.
4. Click OK.
5. When you receive the following message, click Yes to confirm that you want to turn off System Restore:
You have chosen to turn off System Restore. If you continue, all existing restore points will be deleted, and you will not be able to track or undo changes to your computer.
Steps to turn on System Restore
1. Click Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
2. In the System Properties dialog box, click the System Restore tab.
3. Click to clear the Turn off System Restore check box. Or, click the Turn off System Restore on all drives check box.
4. Click OK.
Windows Vista:
1) Type system into the start menu search box, and pick the 4th item down, just labeled “System”. (You could also right-click the computer icon and choose properties)
2)Now click the System protection link
3)Once you uncheck the drive, click the “Turn System Restore Off” button
4)To enable repeat the steps and then check the drive box that you had unchecked before.
2.Backup only important stuff, if you start backing up everything infected files may transfer. However, this might not be needed, unless you got really important stuff.
If the virus infected your OS and you can’t boot into Windows by normal mode or safemode use a linux live CD or get Hirens Boot Disk 9.5. It comes with small version of
Windows 98 that runs from RAM it can be used to back up important files. Hirens Bootdisk also comes packed with programs for testing hardware problems and with antivirus scanners.
3. I recommend that you get Hirens Bootdisk, scan with the 2 antivirus programs and antispyware programs before Windows starts!! Use this disk to test other hardware problems such as test bad RAM, bad hard drives, ect.
Download Hirens bootcd 9.4 + keyboard patch
http://rapidshare.com/files/149030802/hbcCW.rar
4. If you can start Windows and can get to desktop install and run this FREEWARE: Hijackthis, SuperAntiSpyware, Spybot Search and Destroy, Ad Aware 2008, McAfee Stinger, Spyware Terminator, and Malwarebytes Antispyware. Also some good other freeware programs you should get; CCleaner, Glary Utilities and Advance WindowsCare Personal. Run one program at a time, or if your computer is fast run two at same time.
All freeware spyware removers plus CCleaner, Glary Utilities, Advance WindowsCare Personal only 67MB’s
http://rapidshare.com/files/147818372/origfreeware.rar
5.Start Windows in safemode and install Hijackthis save the log and then go to
Download Hijackthis
http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/tools/security_tools/hijackthis
Go to : Hijackthis.de
That site will tell yyou what to delete using Hijackthis. When you’re going to delete something that gets picked up as nasty or virus. Make sure you go into google and look up that
.exe files, it could be graphics driver or printer driver. Hijackthis picks up my Lexmark driver as a possible bad file but its not. So be sure you know what your deleting cuz
Hijackthis deletes them and it wont bring them back if you make errors. If you’re unsure about your log save it and go to Helpdesk section and post it.
6. Last step is to install CCleaner if you haven’t already and use it to delete temporary files. It can also scan and delete obsolete registry keys. After you have done install Glary Utilities and run it. That program is pretty good and will even scan for spyware too. It will get rid of your junk and speed up your computer. You can also run Advanced WindowsCare Personal which is similar to Glary Utilities in case some junk is left behind.
They are useful programs like CCleaner I use it to remove 1 or 2GB’s weekly. Imagine if you never run it? You probably can gain more space!!! Using the other two programs that delete registry keys that are obsoletes can be risky sometimes so before you decide to just go along with what the program says is junk make a back up of your Registry!!
To make back up of registry go to RUN, type REGEDIT and then click File and then Export. Make sure you save it someplace where you can recover it. Then go ahead and scan with those utility programs they really do make a difference and will help you gain performance back.
Another thing you could do is create a shadow copy of your hard drive incase anything ever goes bad you can just reformat hard drive and install this shadow copy. Use Hirens BootDisk it has Acronis True Image for backing up your whole PC.
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