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The Antivirus live virus
In the past few months I've had the pleasure of having to deal with a very nasty virus on three separate machines.
This virus masquerades itself as an antivirus scan, very official looking, very much like an official windows file popping up and asking you to scan for this threat which does not exist until you actually agree to the scan.
This virus is nasty, and very hard to kill. Not impossible but it is hard, and in the process of killing it you may end up doing more damage to your system than you'd like to.
To start with if you see this official looking scan pop up on your system please do not click on anything, the last time I had the pleasure of seeing this virus it was as easy as doing a hard boot on my system and then running a boot time scan with avast antivirus. Away went the virus and I was happy.
However if you have already clicked on it and now it feels like you've lost your hard drive there is still hope.
I've found the easiest way to destroy this thing once its active is to make it inactive, pull the hard drive from your system and attach it to a usb cable , plug it back in to another computer and scan the drive, find and destroy the virus, reinstall your operating system repair the files you can and destroy the ones you cant. Simple huh !?
Simple and this virus doesn't belong in the same sentence. So if you happen to get this little gem of a virus, please do yourself a favor and shut the computer down until you can look for help online.
Now you can save yourself the headache through all of this and just do regular backups of your hard drive. Having a clean backup to switch to is way easier to deal with, just switch to your backup drive and reformat the first drive then proceed to do another backup of the secondary drive and continue on. This is fairly easy to do with a desktop but a little trickier with a laptop. The desktop requires that you buy a second hard drive and install it into your system. Copy your hard drive once a week and you'll always have a drive to work with. A laptop on the other hand just means that you have to buy a second hard drive, attach it to a usb cord and do your backups that way. When a problem arises the desktop is the simplest, just reach in and switch the two hard drive harness's and you're on the second drive as your main drive. The laptop means having to open your laptop, pull your drive out and replace it with your backup.
Planning will save you tons of work and heartache when it comes to keeping a computer system virus free. Not to mention all that yelling when your wife finds out you just lost all the pictures of your kids !
Just backup your hard drives it'll save your sanity when something goes wrong.
Antivirus live, the virus I've come to hate with a passion.
Looks like a real windows program doesn't it ?
This virus gets people to activate it by clicking on a program you think is going to destroy the virus. It also shuts down your regular antivirus as well so you shouldn't rely on it to save you.
An internal hard drive
An external hard drive
Clickfree automatic backup software for those who wish to go the easiest route, it will cost you though.
