Viruses, Spyware, Malware And Trojan Removal

For every positive, there seems to be a negative and that is no different when it comes to computers. Computers help us maintain our lives, make a living, cure diseases, give us the ability to retain, archive, to store our family photo’s, videos, music, letters, and achievements. Computers can make a positive impact on our lives, yet for all the positive that goes and comes with that technology, there is always that “Other side, the Negative side!”

If you do not have some type of Virus, Trojan, Malware or Spyware protection for your computer, you are playing Russian Roulette with your computer data, because it’s just a matter of time before your computer or PC will become infected. If you are connected to the Internet without a Firewall or Router with Firewall capabilities it too will me just a matter of time before your computer or PC becomes infected or compromised in some fashion.

What can Viruses, Malware, Worms, Trojans, and Spyware do:

• Viruses, Trojans, and Spyware can steal your personal information, data and identification
• Viruses, Trojans, and Spyware can pass your personal and financial information onto one or thousands of people
• Viruses, Trojans, Spyware, and Malware can cause data loss, data corruption, and data theft
• Viruses and Trojans can access and take control of your computer for illegal activities
• Viruses, Trojans, Worms, and Malware can track and send your surfing and computer habits to a third person or party
• Viruses and Trojans can allow the use of your computer for illegal computer and networking activities
• Viruses, Trojans, Spyware, and Worms can steal your personal or business financial information
• Viruses, Trojans, Spyware, Worms, and Malware can cause lock-ups, hang-ups, and poor performance
• Viruses  and Trojans can do damage to your file system, boot records, and drive partitions
• Viruses, Trojans, Worms, and Malware can cause networking issues, bring a network or server to a grinding halt
• Viruses, Trojans, Spyware, Worms, and Malware can cost you, your business, the company you work for hundreds to millions of dollars
• Viruses, Trojans, Spyware, Worms, and Malware can cause system, workstations, and server down times
• Viruses, Trojans, Spyware, Worms, and Malware they can cause loss of productivity

Viruses, Trojans, Spyware, Worms, and Malware programs can hide dormant until triggered by any combination of events, or for a designated time, it may disguise itself as another program or process, while doing possible damage to your data, or steal your information, such as financial, company, or personal data.

Where do Viruses, Trojans, Malware, Spyware, and Worms come from, how do you become infected? There are many ways for your computer to become infected with a computer Virus, Trojan or any other type of Spyware or Malware.

Viruses, Trojans, Spyware, and Malware can come from:

• Opening an email or email attachment from someone you know that has already been infected
• Opening an email or email attachment from someone you Do NOT know or recognize with a virus
• A website, online forum, blog, or any other place on the Internet can try to download a virus, Trojan, Spyware, Worm, or Malware
• You might catch a Virus, Trojan, Malware, Spyware or Worm from a P2P program, instant messaging, chat rooms
• You might catch a Virus, Trojan, Malware, Spyware or Worm from an infected program or warez
• You might catch a Virus, Trojan, Malware, Spyware or Worm from newsgroups or bit torrent programs
• You might catch a Virus, Trojan, Malware, Spyware or Worm from the Internet due to lack of proper computer protection 
• There are many ways your computer may become infected with some type of Virus, Trojan or Malware. 

How are Viruses removed:

It can be a tedious process to remove a single Virus or Trojan from any computer or laptop. It may take many hours to a day, to fully remove or recover from just a single infection, take a spin on the Internet and you’ll find thousands of articles, forums and post’s regarding Virus, Trojan, and Spyware infection and removal horror stories. You’ll find occurrence’s of people struggling to remove a Virus or Trojan for days, you’ll see that numerous programs had to be used, and the frustration the person went through. There are Viruses and Trojans that are very difficult to remove and there are some that are pretty straight forward and easy to remove, however, this is usually not the case. Most computers, pcs, laptops or notebooks that were infected with a Virus or Trojan, were not just infected with one Virus or Trojan, they had numerous infections, and many of those computers needed more than one application, program or software utility to fully remove all the infections.

Final Thought:

How long did it take to setup your computer, install all your programs, make settings changes to those programs, get your email accounts setup, your serial numbers for all your software installed, perform your operating systems updates, security patches, keyboard, mouse, and display settings, then do the same for your other installed programs and software. It is not uncommon for someone who uses a lot of programs to perform a job or make a living, multiple days to reinstall their operating system and programs to the original state it was in before it was infected with a Virus or Trojan! We’ve seen people go through that, it isn’t easy, fun or quick. The moral of the story, make sure you are well protected from Virus, Trojan, Spyware and Malware infections, your sanity may depend on it.