subject: The Great Hassle Of Getting Rid A Virus From A Computer [print this page] You wake up one morning, having just suffered one of the worst nightmares of your life. Your computer got infected with a virus, and you lost everything on it. Oh well. It was just a dream. You go over and turn on your computer. An error message pops up. It seems that your nightmare is replaying itself out right in front of your eyes on your computer. But, unlike your nightmare, there is hope to clean it up. You could reinstall your hard drive, but you don't really want to. You could try to clean it up manually, but that doesn't always work.
There is also a very big choice that you could do more damage than that nightmare virus has already done. You have to be very careful to make sure you know what you are doing.
If your computer is giving you error messages, it may be helpful to write down those messages, and then search for them online. Make sure you have exact wording.
If you are trying to self diagnose the problem online, you will need to identify when, where, and possibly how the problem started. If you are able to do that, your problem is well on the road to being solved.
If you decide to search the internet to see if you can find out what the problem is, don't use the computer that is affected by this virus. Use a virus free computer that has an anti virus system on it. If you would have had a good anti virus program on your computer, you probably wouldn't be in the fix you're in right now.
If you are going to manually remove the virus, you will have to go into the registry of the computer and delete every file that is infected. You will need to be very careful that you don't delete something of great importance in this process.
If you have another computer that has a really good anti virus program on it that also has an external hard drive, you could try putting the virus infected hard drive in the virus free computer. You could then let the anti virus program identify all the bugs in the system.
Be forewarned, this is a really good way to share a virus. Make sure you have a high quality virus protection, and that it has been recently updated.
