HOW TO INSTALL ANTIVIRUS ON VIRUS INFECTED PC - AN EXPERIENCE

            Now a days viruses are governing the computers with admin logins (Especially in Windows XP). Powerful virus programs will disable Anti-virus software as their first duty. Then it will not Allow you to install the Antivirus by disabling the installer. So that our only way at this time will be reformatting (Re-installing the Operating system).

                           Finally i have found a solution for this problem. First of all, all the viruses will disable the Registry Editor, Task Manager and control panel. So by correcting Registry Editor we can get touch with installer. For that i recommend you to install Ashampoo Win Optimizer(Link1). It will correct the partially then Open the MS Config window (Start->Run-> then type "msconfig"). From there you just disable all the Start up Items by clicking Disable All, This will make the viruse executables to be late in action during next booting.

                                        Then Copy the SETUP (Installer) of your Antivirus on your Desktop, Then restart the PC. As soon as it reboots, double click on the Anti-virus Setup and install it.. Hopefully it will work.. If It's not working for you, just contact me through leaving comments here.

Link 1: http://download.cnet.com/Ashampoo-WinOptimizer/3000-2094_4-10224281.html

VISTA BOOTING ERROR - BOOTMGR IS MISSING - FIX IT

                   Last week i had this problem. when i reached home from college, i tried to switch on my PC. but it gives me this error  "BOOTMGR is Missing". I was helpless, because i had all my project files inside my PC (particularly in C drive). So i cant format it. Then i came to a conclusion that i am gonna repair my PC with Vista DVD. You kinow,It worked well.

The steps i followed are

• Insert Vista Bootable DVD inside the DVD Drive
• Restart the PC and change the booting priority (If needed) in BIOS(press Del,when restart for doing this)
• Then install windows will appear, we have to select English language and have to click on next
• Next step select Repair your computer
• Then we have to select Vista installed partition
• In the System Recovery Options window select the first Option "Start up Repair"

This Process will be completed quickly and you can get back the system as before..

MOBILE PHONE VIRUS ATTACKS

Virus attacks in PC are the most common thing that we all know. But now-a-days Mobile devices are more vulnerable to viruses. These viruses are severe that they can even disable the mobile phone or create bills of hundreds of dollars by sending pricey picture messages. There are about 100 viruses that are currently found in mobile devices. Today we have Mobile phones with internet connectivity which plays the role of a computer. But it comes with the mobile viruses.

History of mobile viruses

Cabir- 2004

They started their attack in 2004 and named the virus as Cabir.This virus replicates on Bluetooth wireless networks.It was an example of a worm, a virus that replicates on other devices. Since the range of Bluetooth is finite, technically the virus could only spread to other devices within close proximity.

Bluetooth viruses

The virus spread quickly and is now present in number of countries. Fortunately, this mobile phone virus changed only a few words, and didn’t affect the phone’s operation, though the scanning for other Bluetooth devices could quickly drop the phone’s battery. Other viruses are not so innocent, and people worried that some viruses might be completely disable the phones.

CommWarrior- 2005

CommWarrior was another worm for mobile devices appeared in 2005. This worm replicates itself through the phone's Multimedia Messaging System(MMS)).

MMS viruses

It also sends out copies of itself through Bluetooth, and it can make automatic replies to texts, thus sending the worm on to other users.It sends copies of itself to other phone owners listed in the phone user's address book. Although the worm is not considered harmful it heralds a new age of electronic attacks on mobile phones.

Doombot -2006

Doombot was appeared in 2006,It was a Trojan horse virus that appears to be a downloadable cell phone copy of the game Doom 2. When it is downloaded onto a cellphone, it automatically installs both Cabir and CommWarrior, and then keeps the phone from operating properly.

RedBrowser

It is also a Trojan horse virus and has been most expensive for people, especially in Russia.

Duts

A parasitic file infector virus and is the first known virus for the PocketPC platform. It attempts to infect all EXE files in the current directory

Skulls

A trojan horse piece of code. Once downloaded, the virus, called Skulls, replaces all phone desktop icons with images of a skull. It also will render all phone applications, including SMS and MMS useless

Flexispy

It is another mobile phone virus in which a bit of spyware that sends logs of the phone calls you make to an Internet server.

Download the virus removal tools by clicking the links below:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Kaspersky-Virus-Removal-Tool.shtml

http://www.dl4all.com/search/free+virus+removal+software+for+s60+v3.0+series+mobile+phone+like+Nokia+N79.html

LOCAL DISKS ASK FOR PROGRAM TO OPEN WITH???

Hi friends,

              Some of my friends told me that they have a problem with opening their local drives. i.e., whenever they try to open local disk,they will get a "Open With" window.. This problem comes due to some virus programs,which infects your system processes & block your access to any of those drives. This is a simple problem, you can remove it easily.

                           The basic problem here is,the virus process (creates and)handles the autorun.inf in every local disk. This process is helpful for viruses for their initiation,when you try to open local disks. So they are saved in Read Only format. I have given you the steps below to you to remove these files,

1. Go to Start --> Run then type cmd and press Enter
2. Now the command prompt window will be displayed
3. Type cd\ It takes you to the root directory
4. Then type attrib -r -h -s autorun.inf ,This command makes the file deletable
5. Finally delete it by typing del autorun.inf   
6. Then do this for all other local drives( for example,Local disk D can be cleared by " type d: and do the steps 3 , 4 & 5")

After doing all these, your system doesn't have autorun.inf.. Now do a boot time scan ( If you don't know click here to read from my previous article). That's all, Now you won't have the same problem again.

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SYSTEM PROCESSES -AFFECTED BY VIRUSES

MANUALLY IDENTIFYING VIRUSES AND TROJANS 

REMOVE THE EFFECT OF THE VIRUS FROM YOUR COMPUTER

DETECT AND REMOVE VIRUS FROM USB PENDRIVES WITHOUT ANTIVIRUS

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REMOVE NEW FOLDER.EXE EASILY

Hi friends,

                You may be tired of searching the best software to remove the New Folder.exe and Autorun.inf. Because these are all the basic infections and which leads to the very big virus attack. so many anti-virus software are fail to remove these easily.  There is a simple specific tool to solve these problems. That is Smart virus Remover, download it from Technize

                                  After downloading,it asks for installing.. install it & then Remove the NewFolder.exe files efficiently & Effectively.

Note:

      This is not a full antivirus software.

Related Articles:

LOCAL DISKS ASK FOR PROGRAM TO OPEN WITH??

SYSTEM PROCESSES -AFFECTED BY VIRUSES 

MANUALLY IDENTIFYING VIRUSES AND TROJANS 

DETECT AND REMOVE VIRUS FROM USB PENDRIVES WITHOUT ANTIVIRUS

SPEED UP YOUR VIRUS AFFECTED PC WITHOUT FORMATTING

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SYSTEM PROCESSES -AFFECTED BY VIRUSES

svchost.exe
This is a system process belonging to the Microsoft Windows Operating System which handles processes executed from DLLs. This program is important for the stable and secure running of your computer and should not be terminated.

• We can open the Control Panel -> Administrative tools -> Services, double click Alerter service, and find the executable file path is C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe -k LocalService and the executable file path of Server service is C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs.
• By calling services in this way can save a lot of system resources and therefore we can find a number of svchost.exe in Task Manager.

In fact, they are just the system services. However, if you find more than six svchost.exe processes in your system, you must be careful and check if certain viruses exist, especially if the executable file of the svchost.exe is NOT located in C:\WINDOWS\system32.

explorer.exe
This process is the Windows Explorer. By default it starts with the system together. If you find the executable file path is not C:\Windows, you must pay attention to it.

iexplore.exe
It is a process generated by Microsoft Internet Explorer. It is located in C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\. Until you manually moved its location, if you find this file at other directories, it could be a virus. Sometimes if we do not run IE but the iexplore.exe process still exists in the system, it could be:

1. a virus is running in the name of iexplore.exe

2. a virus is secretly doing bad things through iexplore.exe at the background. In this situation, we recommend you to use antivirus software to scan your computer.

rundll32.exe
This is a process which executes DLL's and places their libraries into the memory, so they can be used more efficiently by applications. This program is important for the stable and secure running of your computer and should not be terminated. It is located in C:\Windows\system32 otherwise it is a virus.

spoolsv.exe
This is a Microsoft Windows system executable which handles the printing process. This process is not critical to the running of the system.If you don't have any printer devices, you should stop this service to save the system resource.
In general, if we find a suspicious process, by carefully checking its name and executable file path, the ordinary virus will certainly be exposed.

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MANUALLY IDENTIFYING VIRUSES AND TROJANS

Viruses and Trojans are not completely invisible in process list of task manager. you can find them easily but it will make us to confuse. Now the straightest way to detect virus is to check the active processes in Taskmanager. If you can't identify a virus process in your task manager, the virus is handling techniques to hide themselves.basically three techniques are used by viruses

1. Processes such as svchost.exe, explorer.exe, iexplore.exe, winlogon.exe are default system processes. In this case viruses are using the similar names with simple alphabet modifications for their processes. For example, If you find any processes named svch0st.exe, explore.exe, iexplorer.exe, winlogin.exe, etc. Then you can see the difference. It makes us to confuse & destroy our system.
   
2. Sometimes viruses are brilliant, they have the exact name of the default system processes. for example it may have the name of svhost.exe. Now the way to find is, default system svhost.exe is executed from C:\WINDOWS\system32.. If the svhost.exe is not executing form there & execution of more than 6 svhost.exe, means Virus.. I recommend you to use a best anti-virus at this state.
3. The third & major method is DLL injection. In this case, An virus DLL is injected to system processes. So that It's difficult to find them unless we use professional detective tools.
   

Note: Terminating system processes may be affecting some parts of the system execution.

REMOVE THE EFFECT OF THE VIRUS FROM YOUR COMPUTER

Hi friends, Are you in trouble with the effect of virus(After the removal of virus)?....... There is a solution for this problem. you can easily remove the effect of the virus from your PC Registry And the File System using Virus effect Remover.. Click here to download.(you need dotNet framework 3.5 to install this). In this software's main window there are six tabs.

1. Main- deals with Registry editor,Task Manager,Processes list,AutoRun.inf File Status, Block USB AutoRun,Show Suspicious Files, Make Registry Backup, Restore Backup, and System File Checker.
   Running Processes. Display the running processes.
2.  Process Detail- deals with running processes
3. Block Virus- deals with the restriction of executable files(.exe, .com, etc.)
4. Startup- deals with the list of programs that runs at startup
5. Folder Options- It is not ready to use
6. Settings- deals with add the program at startup, Ignore CDROM drive, add an icon in the system tray, & enable double click to kill process

Note: You should be careful with ending the process, because you may lose some unsaved data, & Also If u remove system files, some system programs may not be working properly.

DETECT AND REMOVE VIRUS FROM USB PENDRIVES WITHOUT ANTIVIRUS

Friends, you may be in the search of removing the virus from the USB pen drives & some hard disks without using any Anti-virus software. Ya.. There is a technique for this. Now we can see it in step by step manner.

Step 1: Before Inserting the USB drive, go to Tools --> Folder Options

Step 2: Then go to View tab and then select "Show hidden file and folders"& uncheck the two check boxes below to that. This is shown in the snap here,

When you do this,there will be a verification

Step 3: Hold the Left Shift, when you insert the USB pen-drive drive. (Don't take off ur hands from the shift key until the steps are over)

 

Step 4: Then open the USB pen-drive through address bar.

Step 5: Now you can view the virus in the USB pen-drive with .exe extension and  hidden format.

Step6: Just delete those virus files.

Note: After doing this process, Step 2 should be done in reverse way.

Enjoy the virus free world..!!!!

DOWNLOAD UPDATE FOLDER FOR AVG ANTIVIRUS

Hi friends, If you are a dial up user or limited to some download limit of your broadband plan, then you will be worrying about updating your anti-virus software at each and every formatting phase. So if u have backed up the update files of the anti-virus,then It will be easier for you to update every time.

The method is explained here for AVG Internet Security

1. Click on Update button on your AVG User Interface
2. It shows the files to be downloaded to update, here you select UPDATE

     

3.then it will start downloading & shows the URL of the update file 

4.Now, using print screen, take a snap , paste it to paint & then correctly type the URL to download manager.

now you can use these downloaded files infinite times to update it. thanks for reading this, please give a comment

SPEED UP YOUR VIRUS AFFECTED PC WITHOUT FORMATTING

Hi Friends,
          Some times your PC may be very very slow. At that situation you will come to an decision to format the PC. If you do so, your useful data and software may be erased. So you are confused of doing,"what to do??".. Here I have a solution,which I am following. The only way is using a "Boot-time anti virus scan".

How to do it?

•  First of all, you must have an anti-virus,which can perform boot-time scan. for example avast.(click here to download Avast! Professional Edition 4.8.1356 from softpedia)
• Then install it to your PC. After installation It will ask,whether you want to perform a boot-time scan. here you select yes
  
  
  
   
  

• Then Restart your PC, It will remove most of the viruses from your PC. So that you can enjoy the speed of computing again.
• Note: you can do the boot-time scan often to protect your PC
• the snap shown below shows the boot-time scan scheduling after installing avast antivirus. 
  
  
  
  
  
         
  
  
• Download Avast Professional Edition(Trial) from Softpedia
• Download Avast Home Edition(Freeware) from Softpedia
  

ENABLE THE TASK MANAGER,WHICH WAS DISABLED BY VIRUS

During some processing, you may want to open the Task manager.But when you try to open it by pressing ALT+CTRL+DEL. then ther will be a error message as shown below

This error is due to the restrictions made in the registry, somebody may change the registry and make the Task manager enable. but it is difficult for all the computer user. there is a simple small application which will enable your task manager by one click. It's Task Manager Fix. 

When you click the task manager, a window will be displayed as shown in above image. you just click on the button "Fix Task Manager". the next second your Task Manager will be enabled. download Task Manager Fix from softpedia

A ROCKING OPEN SOURCE ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE

CLAMWIN is a open source antivirus, you can download and experience the highly secured scanning.It comes with easy installer and open source code. click here to download