How To Get Rid Of Malware

If there is good there is evil born with it. The saying is true with any invention whether it is the computer or the software. When one makes software for easy access to banks, another who is more intelligent than the former is sure to find something that will help to hack a bank account. Malware is one such thing as it is nothing but the abbreviated term of ‘malicious software’ program. Any type of code or program that is used to collect the personal information or disrupting or crashing your computer comes under malware. It can pose a threat as it uses programs such as the spyware or adware used for tracking cookies, to monitor the surfing habits of anyone who uses a particular computer. There can be more to it when more of the deleterious items such as the key loggers, Trojan horses, worms, and viruses come into the picture. A key logger as the very name says is a program that can log anything and everything that you strike on the keyboard. Trojan horse is used to transfer information from your computer to any other. Running at least one anti-adware program along with anti-virus will do a lot of help. If you want to know more, on how to get rid of malware read through the pointers.

 

Malware is more like a deadly disease that affects any computer. Given here are some ways on how you can get rid of it. 

Restore

Restore
It is a good option to get rid of any lighter version of malware programs. You can get it done by your Windows itself. However while you are formatting your C drive to get rid of malware, you need to have a back up for restoring. Make it a point that even while removing the malware, try to keep a back up of any important data that you are removing, and this should be done regularly. You will always need a backup for important file.

Scan
Most of the computers that you find today run a scanner like the virus scanner. There are umpteen types of scanners that are found there in the spyware/virus removal category most of which can be downloaded for free from the websites. One good anti-virus scanner should do the work. Along with the virus scanner, you can also use a spyware and malware scanner. You can check out for Adaware and Spybot Search and destroy for good results. 

Clean The Hard Drive
Though it is not an easy thing to do, you can always go for a clean install if the virus has done enough of the damage. A clean install deletes everything that is there on the hard drive. The end result is that you are left with no more viruses in your computer. It is always better to keep a back up of everything important like the pictures, documents that are stored in the hard drive so that you will not lose anything that is important. 

Use A Firewall
Any computer with a good internet securities program installed will have a Firewall included in it. If it is not already installed you can install one and can safeguard your computer from any internet threat.