Prevention Measures and How to Eliminate Computer Viruses

Security Measures to Avoid Viruses :

* Make periodic backup copies of our data.

* Avoid downloading files from unknown places.

* Do not accept non-original or pre-installed software without the original support.

* Protect disks against writing, especially system ones.

* Analyze all new disks that we introduce into our system with antivirus, even empty disks (as they may contain viruses in their boot sector).

* Periodically analyze the hard disk, to prevent a virus from loading into memory prior to the analysis.

* Update the patterns of the antivirus programs every one or two months, some packages do it automatically.

* Try to receive the programs we need from the Internet from official sites.

* Take special care with the files that may be included in our email, do not open files from unknown users.

How to Remove a Virus :

First Step: PC Diagnosis.

If you suspect or are completely sure that a virus has been hosted on your PC, because you have noticed some symptoms in it, such as:

- Continuously restarts

- The operating system takes a long time to start

- If the hard drive reports failure

- Unknown extensions appear

The first step after detecting the virus is to check the antivirus that you currently have installed on your PC, if you do not have it, it is advisable to install one (it is better to have only one antivirus installed since having more than one could cause conflicts on your PC).

Some names of the best-known antivirus are Kaspersky, Avira Premium, BitDefender, Protegent360, Panda, Zone alarm.

Second Step: Remove Virus.

The second step to eliminate the virus is to deactivate the system restorer, so there are some viruses that are capable of being restored immediately after each restart of the PC, for this they must right-click on the properties of MY PC and check the box of disable system restore or disable system restore on all drives. After having followed the previous steps, the PC must be restarted, but now in safe mode (Pressing the upper key F8 at the moment that the operating system is raising) after this, we must pass the antivirus.

Third Step: Verifying the Removal of the Virus.

If you carried out all the previous steps and your PC no longer shows any symptoms that it is still infected, from now on it is best to run the antivirus on your PC daily to reduce the risk of another virus infecting your PC.

Also, if you want to continually clean your PC, a good program for them is Ccleaner and, above all, don't forget to keep your antivirus updated. Also, prefer an advanced antivirus such as total security software to combat the latest virus