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Virus, a name which really horrifies us. One is body virus and the other is a computer virus. As we are techies so we will limit our discussion to Computer Virus.

We often come across to situation when our computer is infected with virus. Virus are of different types depending on the nature and the structure. There different types are Macro virus,Boot sector, File infector virus, File infector virus etc. We will basically discuss about the effective ways to remove virus.

I always believe that we should always be cautions so that no virus can infect our PC. Why should we allow a virus to infect our PC and cause frustration ? Often heard this famous proverb:-

"Prevention is better than Cure".

We must ensure that we must not do any such activity which will leave us with an infected PC and affect our daily routine. Here are few steps which we must follow :-

1. Never visit any illegal sites which is the most common way of spreading virus.

2. Never download applications,songs from any untrusted sites. Mp3 songs is very popular in spreading virus.

3. Never download any content from an unknown sender through E-Mail.

4. Disable autoplay for USB devices and CD/DVD's.

5. Update your antivirus regularly.



If you fail to prevent the virus from infecting your PC then there are many ways to eradicate it from the PC. Few of the viruses can be easily removed by changing the registry entries, disabling start-up items and deleting the .exe file from the stored path. Some viruses are very complicated in nature and they infect the System files so it becomes very difficult to remove them. Here are the steps which you should follow which can help eliminate almost every virus from the PC. I assume that you already have Updated Anti-Virus installed on the PC


1. Download MALWARE BYTES and SPYBOT.

2. Boot into Safe Mode. (Very effective way as it disables certain features of an OS.)

3. First Scan your PC with Antivirus , MALWARE BYTES and SPYBOT.

4. Run Registry cleaner to delete all the invalid entries.



The above method proved to be very useful. I manage many tech communities in Orkut and suggested the same method and it was successful in 80% cases.