Virus's, trojans, spyware and adware...we have all seen them and know what they can do to our computers. Each day 'hackers' are releasing more and more of these harmful things to the world wide web. It's not totally uncommon to get infected by simple viewing an image on a webpage.
There are tons of softwares that you can spend hours searching through. You can hope that the one program you pick to protect your computer will never fail you. But your searches will be in vain.
The truth about keeping your computer safe and clean is that you have to take sole responsibility in and keep tabs on your computer 24/7 or you will do no good.
How virus scanners work.
Some people are under the impression that virus scanners are supposed to scan your computer for infection and then fix them. While this is true to some extent, it doesn't exactly work that way.
Each virus scanner software has a list of known virus. If you scan your computer and the virus you are infected doesn't show up.....you will not get rid of the infection. Virus scanners are not built to remove virus's as they find them. They are just basically a database of text that searches your computer looking for anything that might resemble the virus. Once found, a set of instructions is ran to remove it. However, due to the vast majority of virus's out there and the overwhelming number of people who don't know what they are doing on the net, some of the virus's are coded to avoid detection and no one informs the virus scanner of this...so it goes un-noticed.
I wrote up an article so anyone reading this can get their feet wet and start removing virus's themselves. It's an arduous task but to be completely honest....it must be done if you want a secure computer!
The article lists a few free tools that you can use and where to get help if you get stuck. I can promise you this. If you learn to use the tools outlined in the article, you will be 100% virus free for the rest of your computing lifetime (or at least know how to be virus free).
So here it is, be sure to check it out.
How to get rid of computer virus's
