how do you find a virus on your system....
By patialvi
@patialvi (715)
India
May 20, 2009 7:41pm CST
There is a huge community using computers and many of them don't even know how to run it. i sometime think that those people are managing their computers, i mean there could be a virus attach on the system everyday. Are they able to detect that or they run their computers as it is and do only when the system got crashes or something bad happens to it. Because not all the virus scanners are perfect to catch the virus. i am using avira and sometime it get fail to detect the virus, so i use some other tools to remove the same. but for professionals it is easy to find from the behaviour of the computers. isn't it....
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7 responses
@sanuanu (11235)
• India
21 May 09
No, it is not that easy. You can come to know that your system is infected but you can't catch a virus without any anti virus installed in your system.
I am using Symantec Antivirus with Avira also. I have other tools too to look after registry and my system performances!
But even then I caught a virus last week and had to format my system.
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@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
21 May 09
My friend who is a computer tech just helped a friend of mine this week with her computer, she had a very bad virus thar took him three days to find, three virus detectors did not find it and he had to end up reformatting her whole computer to get rid of it...it is very scary.
@venmarz13 (735)
• Indonesia
21 May 09
When i see there is so many changes in my computer system i try to recognize it using my spyware,my anti virus and other tools to analyze and clean that.But if i cant handle it by myself i try to call my friend that good in cleaning viruses.Ya virus can be attach in every file that we have.Usually i using nod32.I heard that anti virus is so best in 2009
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@net_ankit (643)
• India
21 May 09
The only way to remove or detect virus is some understandin or Antivirus application use. If your computer not working properly, some files are corrupted or hangs up lot, restarting many time then there may be problem of virus and you should scan your computer regularly it will find & destroy virus from system.
@fergus (817)
• Ireland
21 May 09
Hi most people would not no a virus if it came up and rang there door bell and i know that because i am one of them. Me like most people have to depend on security
software to catch them theres nothing you can realy do you have to alow a small bit of trust because theres no point being on the computer if you think about a virus all the time do your best and thats all you can do all the best.
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@cili82 (32)
• Malaysia
21 May 09
Based from my experience...if i see some suspicious process in task manager then it'll be 70% that the computer is infected..i also use Avira combined with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware program that definitely will keep my computer safe..apart from that,when sometime my pc suddenly become so slow,it could be the sign of the virus..
