The infection.

There are various ways to contracting a virus. You don't have to be watching porn either. It's easy to get and hard to get rid of. They are made to steal your personal information such as files and passwords. They annoy you and are even made to spy on others. Most viruses can be handled with this method. Check out these easy steps to virus removal.

Symptoms of a virus.

You will definitely know when the computer is infected. Annoying pop-ups to buy products or even naughty girls in your side screen. The PC will start to run slower then ever and some programs will not respond. Your PC will shut down with out you instructing it. The worst symptoms sometimes to no return will be that blue screen of death.

Start the cleanup.

This needs to be done in safe mode. Remove all cookies and cache in your PC. It may be easier to use a clean up scan. Continue to remove all temp files and those prefetch files. You can find the prefetch folder by doing a search within windows or by typing in the run box.

Remove unwanted programs.

Next remove all programs in your add/remove list. Some viruses come in with certain types of programs installed. This will also free up some space and clean out old files and registry entries. Yes go ahead and remove the other programs that you are not using.

Full scan of PC.

Now run an anti-virus scan on your PC. You should still be in safe mode. Leave your computer alone at this time to make sure it uses less resources and removes everything. Once its finished make sure to get rid of all instances of the virus. There should be a remove all button after the scan.

Browser Hijack.

Sometimes your browser can be hijacked. It's good to use some type of Trojan or hijack remover. Smitfraudfix is a good example. Then once its finished you can reset the browser back to original state. Uninstall all toolbars and extra pop up blockers. To many will not work correctly and not block anything.

Is the Virus still present?

It may be best for advanced users only to try this part. If the virus is still present you can do a search for it in the windows registry. It will pull up broken or not found links. It is good to remove them here. You can do a search for these files within the hard drive and remove them also. Sift through the msconfig start up files and uncheck items not needed.

Protect yourself from these no good viruses.

Once your computer is connected to the Internet you should get a good anti-virus program. It's not all about the price. Remember key points in virus removal. Too many programs will cancel one another out and not work properly, Making it easier to get a virus.