Comments on: How do I get rid of a computer virus without breaking the bank?

By: sweetu

sweetu — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:44:07 +0000

You can download some best antivirus
programmes like Norton, Avg at

By: huxuewei490101

huxuewei490101 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:39:04 +0000

Udate your firewall and scan your coputer in safe mode. After you remove virus trojan, I recommend you use firefox browser. It can prevent viruses such as worm,trojan and etc.The newest official edition of firefox can be downloaded from

By: jibbarjabar

jibbarjabar — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:30:27 +0000

Run both of these on-line scans. Both are free and excellent at detecting and removing malware free of charge. There is no need to un-install your current protections before using these.

1. Scan for virus, worms, dialers, etc. and remove (free online scan, no downloaded program) with BitDefender’s Online Scanner

2. Scan for trojans, adware, and spyware and remove (free online scan, no downloaded program) with Ewido Online Scanner ( now known as AVG Anti-Spyware). This is NOT the same as AVG Anti-Virus.

These scans will take quite a bit of time. The time is necessary to clean-up an infected computer.

Good luck.

By: MRBARBQ1

MRBARBQ1 — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:47:59 +0000

Try using this from McAfee, it’s free.

By: computer Helper

computer Helper — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:18:15 +0000

all you need are the spyware figher essentials

By: Eagleflyer

Eagleflyer — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:06:02 +0000

For considerably less, maybe around $50.00, you can download Norton or Symantec antivirus software that will scan your pc and detect any virus, and quarantine it so it can do no further harm to your computer.

Spyware and viruses are not quite the same. Spyware is not malicious, it just tracks your computer usage and websites visited for commercial purposes. Viruses, on the other hand, are malicious and destructive. But as far as your computer speed and performance is concerned, the more TSR(Terminate and Stay Resident) programs you have running on your computer, the slower it will run. These TSRs are courtesy of myriad Internet vendors that couldn’t care less about your computer performance, they are desperate just to get their digital clutches into your Internet interface. It is a fact of life that Internet vendors, Yahoo included, will want to download software that stays resident in memory, thereby sapping your memory resources.

I would be happy to go into a rant about how invasive this is to what, after all, is YOUR computer system and who ARE these people to muck it up? Having been around the block a few times with this situation, it would seem to me to be a situation of “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” because Microsoft, if nothing else, will want to keep dowloading “fixes” and whatever to slow your system down. These “fixes” are probably necessary.

You can buy more MEMORY for your computer if it isn’t maxed out already. That is one surefire way to make your computer run faster. You can also press ctrl+alt+delete and bring up your Task Manager program to see what’s running in memory. Take each process that’s running, cut and paste its name into your searchbar, and find out what this program is actually doing. You might find you can eliminate that program from your startup sequence. If you do not have the computer knowledge on how to do that, further Internet research will perhaps show you the steps. Good luck.

One last note: The irony of spyware is almost Orwellian. Yahoo will happily download its antispy ware onto your computer. Look at the licensing agreement very carefully. It states that by downloading this software, you agree to have Yahoo install its own spyware on to your system. See what I mean? If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.

By: satish magic answers

satish magic answers — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:12:27 +0000

if u dont have a patients to clean virus then formate your system
if u want to clean thenfirst know come to know which virus had attacked my pc then u go for cleaning

try sophos mcafee

By: k k

k k — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:21:47 +0000

Ok first of all…

Go to trendmicro.com and click on housecall. It will scan your computer in realtime for free and let you know if you have any crap (virus) in your computer. Don’t waste time downloading a bunch of 3rd part spyware removers. The yahoo! toolbar has a spyware cleaner. Its simple and it gets the job done. Those 2 things are all you need.
If it all fails. Burn a copy of your essential files and reformat your hard drive.

By: TY Charns

TY Charns — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:48:26 +0000

Spybot search and destroy
you can download it for free right here:

By: henry l

henry l — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:28:19 +0000

when you scan with avg does it find virus i believe you have a hacker in your computer you have to reformat im sorry to say but thats what you have to do sure it might lose all your music than burn all your music to a cd or buy a external hardrive and transfer everything to the external harddrive than reformat your computer thats my best solition but before you put a file in the external harddrive check if its infected with a virus if it is dont transfer it. thats my solution i hope it’d help