DO YOU HAVE A VIRUS ?.

DO YOU HAVE SPY WARE ?.

IS YOUR COMPUTER SLOWING DOWN ?.

OR DOING STRANGE THINGS ?.

FREE ADVICE AND SOFTWARE:-

If you suspect that you have a virus or some other dodgy software installed on your computer follow these steps:-

Install the latest virus checker click update and then do a full system scan including checking within Zip files.

Install the latest version firewall such as Zone alarm and enable Anti Spyware monitoring and email protection etc Go into program control to list all programs and any that are suspect left click and select Kill. This will prevent the file from ever running.

Download Spybot search and destroy www.security.kolla.de/ Update the software and do a full scan check and fix files as necessary **enable imunization**

Download latest version of Hijack this http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/

Do a full scan and repair anything that looks suspect. ( Be carefull not to fix everything as some items may be legitimate)

Manually go to the windows/System32 folder and sort by date look at the latest entry's hover the mouse over a file and you will get further info on the file if it looks suspect then upload it here http://virusscan.jotti.org/ to have it checked by 14 virus checkers. Enter the filename into www.google.com for even more information.

Delete or quarantine any suspect files. If you find it is valid then you can always unquarantine it. If I quarantine a file I usually zip it which makes it harder to run.

Other excellent programs to check out are Security task manager (the full registered version is more helpfull) Lists and grades all tasks. http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/download.html

Download and run adware alert http://adwarealert.com/download.html

As a final check download and install Registry Mechanic to check and optimise your registry files.

At the end of this you should have a leaner meaner faster machine with no spyware or virus in sight.

Disclaimer :- You are using this information/advice at your own risk please make backups before making any changes to your system. Please verify an entry is not a valid entry before deleting/fixing it. Do not contact me to say that your machine no longer boots up. DYOR (Do your own research).

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