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Are you having a virus scan every time you are booted into Windows and the scan is showing hundreds of infections? Are you having a pop up next to the clock telling you that your system is infected and you need to download their antivirus software to clean it? Is there the phrase “Virus Alert” next to your system clock? You are probably having Micro Antivirus 2009, Antivirus 2008 XP, or something with a similar name installed on your system. Whatever the name is, these are all fake warnings and they pretty much act in the same way. They pretend they are legitimate virus scanners and try to trick you into paying them.

Disable Startup Services

To get rid of these infections, the first step is to prevent them from starting up. You can control startup program and services in System Configuration.

1. Click the Start button, and click Run…
2. In the Run box, type msconfig and press OK.
3. The System Configuration box comes up, click on the Services tab.
4. Check “Hide all Microsoft services”.
5. In the remaining list of services, uncheck all entries.
6. Click on the Startup tab.
7. Uncheck all entries and click OK.
8. Restart your computer

Once you restarted your computer, your system should be in a more functional state. If not, then you can always boot into safe mode.

Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware

The next step is to scan your system with an antivirus program. However, I have tried using popular commercial scanners such as Kaspersky and NOD32. But neither of them can completely remove this type of infections. The most effective scanner dealing with this type of infections is Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware. I have used it on a number of systems and it removed the infections successfully and fixed the registries. Some infections would disable your task manager, display properties, and remove the Run, My Computer, and other items in your Start menu. Malwarebytes can revert these change automatically in the registry.

1. Download Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware software from their website.
2. Install it on your computer.
3. Once it starts up, just perform a quick scan.
4. Once the scan is done, click on “view results”.
5. Then click on remove.

After the scan, you can now restart your computer to see if you are still getting the fake infection warnings. You may also want to try scanning your computer with NOD32 or Kaspersky at this time for viruses that Malwarebytes couldn’t catch. In the end, you can enable your startup services again in System Configuration.

Tools: MSConfig, Google

Nowadays, spywares and viruses are getting Naughty. No one Anti-virus can pick up all the malwares. Today I am going to write a brief tutorial to help you to try to remove the malware by yourself.

Computer malware is just a program that similar to other normal programs in your computer like Notepad, Paint, and etc. The only difference is the malware will damage your computer system, and the other normal programs can make your life easier.

A malware will have to be fired up at the start up, so they can take control of your system without a user to start it up.

To prevent some low level malware starting up with your system, you can use the MSConfig program which was generally inside XP Pro, and Vista. Once your open up your MSConfig in the Run Box, you can go to the “Start Up” tab and then uncheck all those suspicious items (If you are not sure which are dangeous, you can try to use google to do research).

After disable some suspicious startup items, and now it is the time to disable system restore and page files. The reason why to disable system restore and page files is because some of the malware can copy themself into the system restore files and paging files, so even if the malware were killed by the virus scanner, and they will still get a chance to get back to your system.

After disable suspicious startup items, system restore, and paging files, now it is the time to update your favorite anti-virus program. Then, you will need to restart your computer into safe mode (Press F8 key, after your system just reboot). Now, it is the time to fight with the malware under the safe mode. You can fire up you anti-virus program and scan your computer. In most of the time, your virus scanner should pick up all the malwares. If your scanner reports that all malware items had been deleted, it should be a good news. However, don’t be so happy yet, because this is just safe mode, I highly recommend you go back to normal mode and re-scan your system to make sure the malware are all clear.

This is just a basic level of the virus removal instruction.

I will discuss more high level instruction on this topic later, and I hope this basic instruction will help you..

Thank you