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Help for Viruses
Microsoft offers reward for arrest and conviction of
person or persons who created the
Blaster, Sobig, MyDoom and DoomJuice viruses.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/nov03/11-05AntiVirusRewardsPR.asp
How do you know if you have a virus?
Is your computer
suddenly acting a little differently?
Do you have trouble opening programs?
Are you getting GPF's (general protection faults)?
Has your word processor gone to lunch?
Are you having problems saving documents
or printing your documents?
Has your computer stopped running altogether?
Does your computer refuse to go to Symantec,
or any of the other anti-virus websites?
Freezes and hangs plaguing you?
These are possible signs that
your PC has a virus!
Viruses can cost us a lot of time and money.
Having an up-to-date
virus scanner is
a good idea in these times but it does not
guarantee your PC won't get a virus.
Viruses are coming out at an alarming rate of 15 to 25 a day.
This is just a short
but meaningful
Thank You
to all the Anti Virus Companies who take the time
and effort (millions of hours) it take to keep up
with the never ending task of keeping us safe!
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Have you updated your Anti Virus
software today?
(Viruses morph and some are more than just one!)
If you are not comfortable with hacking your own registry, might I suggest you call in a Computer Professional to handle
the problem correctly or try some of the removal tools below.
It is very hard to know if you got it all.
Hopefully you have your data backed up off the drive or
burned on to a CD Rom some where.
If not, you need to before you do anything listed here
(if you can and the virus will let you)
These tools are for removal only!
They do not take
the place of a good anti-virus software program, so please do yourself a
favor and get one and keep it updated.
Spend the money it is more
than worth the cost! |
Here are some great
antiviral tools from
Panda Software,
Symantec,
MacAfee just to name a few.
It's an all in
one tool that
takes care of the Nimba,
SirCam, and Love bug
and much more.
Click on links below to download it to your computer!
Newer version's of the all in one
tools are being made every day
PQRemove
Stinger
Also, here are some
removal tools from
Symantec.
Before you use any of the tools you need to
Identify the Virus you have.
Try the PQRemove
and
Stinger
first.
If it Identifies the virus and removes it great.
If not, start reading
the Virus definitions at:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/vinfodb.html/
If
you recently got hit with the Blaster worm
go
get Zone Alarm or Black Ice or a hardware Firewall.
Blaster
removal tool just downloaded from Panda Software.
Welch variant of blaster removal tool just loaded from Symantec.
Thank you Panda Software and Symantec.
These are just a few of the removal tools out there!
Nothing can take away from an up to date Virus program
and An Experienced Computer User.
I've been sent hundreds of emails asking is this a Virus?
"Please"
I beg of you don't do this!
Would you like to stack the odds against yourself on
possibly getting a Virus. This is what you are doing to
me when you forward Suspected email to me.
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Don't open mail from mailer demons (Mail that could not be sent)
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Don't open attachments you were not expecting and for
god sakes don't open .pif, .scr or double back extensions such as
anydocumentname.doc.pif attachments!*
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Learn to spot Spam and don't open it.
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Don't open Email from Admin unless you know who it is from.
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If you are not on a network then you don't have an admin or
an administrator, Stand alone home computer don't have them!
*
An extension is the 3 letter combination after the document name ie: word.doc
Almost always a double back extension is a virus or malware and would look like
this
"word.doc.pif" Word is used as a filler for what ever the documents name
is by the way.
They (the Virus writers) are playing you for the chump, a sucker!
Don't become a sucker!
Each attachment is a mine
field you are
walking
in, treat them as such!
Don't use Preview in Outlook or Outlook Express! **
Some Virus's load on opening or viewing of an email.
Don't open email from people you don't know!
** Newer Version of Office
2003 fixes this problem.
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One of the more disturbing viruses to come out recently is the
Maldal.
Check out what Symantec has to say about this one.
It tries to fool you into taking a survey about the war in the middle east
and then asks the President to kill Israel's Prime Minister Sharon.
Don't take any surveys just to be
on the safe side!
Most of them are spam builders.
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You can go to the following
sites for
removal tools and more information.
AVG Anti
Virus
http://www.grisoft.com
Panda Software
http://www.pandasoftware.com
Symantec
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/index.html
Trend Micro
http://www.antivirus.com/products/
MacAfee
http://www.mcafee.com
The
Code Red virus
nightmare came on July 31.
If you are running a server and IIS
then you need to read about this now!
This worm doesn't affect 95, 98 or ME.
http://www.digitalisland.net/codered/
The Above link's take you to
Panda Software's, Trend Micros, Symantec's on line Virus scan.
We recommend one of these for your online scan.
Please note some viruses won't let you go to anti virus sites.
That is why this site has taken on the responsibility of
helping you clean up your computer by posting the removal tools.
Nothing takes the place of a good Anti Virus program that has
the latest updates, But every once in a while you still can get infected!
Anti virus software can come under attach and be shut off without
your knowing it has happened!
I advise you to run your Anti Virus soft
ware once a week on
full scan!
or
Email us any time at
Info@Computer Security
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Date Last revised:
12/22/2008
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