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    Manually Remove Computer Viruses Without Antivirus Software

    Manually Remove Computer Viruses Without Antivirus Software - Virus are present in the form of harmful agents in both livings and computing machines. Their action in both is only to harm or spoil them. Technically a virus is a protein coated infective agent consisting of nuclear acid molecules. It is too small to be seen by light microscopy and multiply within the living cells of the host. The same way a piece of code capable of replicating a number of times having a detrimental effect like destroying data or corrupting the entire system is named as a computer virus. ‘Brain Virus’ created in 1986 by Amjad and Basit Farook Alvi, the two real brothers from Pakistan is probably the first computer virus. The name “Computer Virus” began its journey when Fred Cohen a Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California used this word first time in his research papers.
    Manually Remove Computer Viruses Without Antivirus Software
    Manually Remove Computer Viruses Without Antivirus Software

    Spyware, Trojans and malware all these are different in nature. A virus is capable of spreading itself computer to computer through various means and the most common way responsible to spread virus is a USB Drive. There are a number of computer virus undectactable by most of antivirus software. Even if detected the antivirus software can not delete them and just quarantine them. But we can get rid of these potentially harm ful code in the following way.

    1. Run cmd(Command), The command promt will appear.

    2. If you are in a different drive, type the drive letter as ‘C:’, ‘D:’, ‘E:’ at the command prompt and press enter to go to the desired drive.

    3. Type DIR at command prompt and press enter. All the contents of the drive will be displayed.

    4. Now check if there is an unusual ‘.exe’ file.

    5. Now check if there is an unusual ‘autorun.inf’ file.

    6. If there is such a files, please rename it or delete it.

    7. To rename type “Renamefilename with extensionnew name of the file” at the command prompt and press enter.

    8. To delete the file type “Del Filename” at command prompt and press Enter.

    To Delete files in windows –

    1. Go to my computer

    2. Open the Drive

    3. Locate the file

    4. Right click on it.

    5. Select delete and confirm when prompted.







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