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Computer Virus Warning

Computer virus is a small malicious, disruptive, self replicating malware (malicious software) written to damage, steal data from your a computer, or harm and disrupt the smooth operation of a computer

Just like a biological virus, it has the ability to hide, replicate and or spread itself within the computer storage or netwrork by attaching itself to a host (another file). But unlike a biological virus, it is created by a computer programmer with the intent to damage or steal information from a computer.

How does a virus infect a computer? Viruses infect computers when infected removeable storages like, floppy disks, flash disks, copied cds, digital flash cards etc, are used in a computer; and by spreading through networks like the local area network or the Internet.

However, the three most common ways viruses infect computers today are through the internet, flash disks and copied CDs. The most common and distructive of these three is the copied cd. Antivirus programs can hardly remove viruses from a copied cd: most of the copied cds are read-only memory ( CD ROM) recordables, the computer reads from them only but cannot write to them or alter their content and therefore cannot remove virues from them even when detected. So they keep infecting every computer they come in contact with. Be conscious of copied cds you thrust into your system

1. How to know Your Computer is Infected?


1. Has your computer become inexplicably too slow?
2. Does your computer restart by itself sometimes?
3. Are you seeing or noticing files and folders you didn't create?
4. Does your computer sometimes freeze and force you to Restart it ?
5. When you open My Pictures folder do you see a file with the name about.brontok.A..?
6. Do you sometimes loose files you are sure were in your computer or in your flash disk?
7. Do you sometimes see a web-like-page, green or blue in color appear on your screen?

2. How to Remove Viruses from Your Computer

1. Backup all important files to a removable media.
2. Stop using the computer or distributing files from it.
3. Remove all free anti virus software previously installed.
4. Install your licensed anti virus program eg. Grisoft AVG
5. Reboot your computer in safe mode and scan the computer
6. Restore your files and re-scan the computer
7. Destroy all copied cds made while the computer was infected

3. Computer Has Stopped Working Because of Infection

1. Connect its Harddisk to Another Computer with Anti Virus Software
2. Reboot the PC in Safe Mode and Scan the Infected Drive
3. Reconnect Disk to its Computer and Install a Licensed Anti Virus Software

4. Computer Has Stopped Working After Scanning and Removing Viruses

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