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Removing Malware and Viruses
DIR By: LuckVintage
Date: November 22, 2017, 5:49 pm
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Removing Malware and viruses from your computer
You should find this article useful if:
You believe you have a virus
Your Google searches or browsing is being Redirected
You are getting lots of Pop-ups or adverts
1) Firstly you need to download a tool remove the malware from
your system – We recommend malware bytes and can you download it
from the following link:
HTML http://www.malwarebytes.org/mwb-download/
HTML http://www.malwarebytes.org/mwb-download/
2) Start the Install of Malwarebytes by double-clicking the
mbam-setup file. The setup will guide you through the
installation and clicking “next” will guide you to the next
screen until the install is complete.
Note: when given the option please deselect the “ Enable free
trial of Malwarebytes” option
Click Finish to complete the setup and open Malwarebytes.
3) You should now see a screen like the one below and the
program will start to update its virus database - If you don’t
see the green tick next to the database version, click “update
now” to make sure the program has received the latest’s updates.
4) Now that the program has the latest updates we need to start
a full computer scan which you can do by clicking “Scan now”
button.
Note: Depending on the number of files, computer speed and
amount of infections this scan could take a couple of hours.
5) When the scan has completed, you will now be presented with a
screen showing you the malware infections that Malwarebytes has
detected. To remove the malicious programs that Malwarebytes has
found, click on the “Quarantine All” button, and then click on
the “Apply Now” button.
Note: Malwarebytes may prompt to restart the computer to
complete the removal of some items; You should save any open
work and allow the restart to happen.
6) Your computer should now be clean of viruses but performing a
secondary scan is recommended to double check the scan has found
all malicious items.
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