How To Clean Up Malware?

Malware, the malicious software can put your computer into a pool of troubles. There are many ways that the malware can get to your computer, namely floppy drive, CD drive, pen drive, internet, and a few more. Internet is known to be the most common gateway between your computer and the malware.

The trap is very well organized where the user is offered a free scan for any potential virus on the computer. Accepting the offer triggers the trouble. There will be more pop ups coming up, offering you an antivirus software. This antivirus software is nothing but the malware. Sometimes people even pay to get into trouble. In other words, they are made to pay for these masked malware.

Scareware is another term used to refer the malware. Microsoft has reported more than 4.4 million computers that are infected by the malware as of today. Some commonly known malware programs are Personal antivirus, XP antivirus, DriveCleaner, RapidAntiVirus, Antivirus?09, and WiPC antivirus. You should only stay away from such programs.

How to fight the malware? In case your computer is suffering with malware, you may want to read on to discover the remedies. It is however not a cake walk to get rid of the malware. Below are the guidelines to do the same.

Take a back up of your important data, before you choose to do anything at all. Sometimes you may lose your important files when trying to clean up malware from your computer. Back up could be taken on your flash USB drive, Floppy drive (if sufficient), or on a CD drive. Once you have taken a copy of your important files, you are ready to fight the malware.

One mistake that many people make is that they install an anti malware software on an already malware suffering computer. This will most likely do no good for you. The malware will nine out of ten times protect itself from the anti malware. You should have installed the anti malware long before, when your computer was healthy. It may be too late now.

Installing and running an anti malware software in the safe mode could be a better option. In safe mode, your OS will not allow any programs to run automatically. This will allow your anti malware to install properly and then scan and get rid of malware. However, you will have to be lucky enough to not have your OS infected as well; because if your OS is infected, the safe mode might do no good.

Nothing works as well as disconnecting your troubled hard disk from the computer, and connecting it to another safe and malware protected computer. The hard disk must be connected as slave. The anti malware on the computer would do a good job cleaning up the slave hard disk. You may perform the operation on a variety of computers having different anti malware software installed. This would guarantee a clean hard disk.

In case it suits you, you could simply format your current copy of OS, and install a fresh one. The process is simpler and does not need you to bother about any remedies.