Gizmo's Freeware Reviews: How to Clean An Infected Computer

17 April 2012
by Chiron

This guide is meant to allow you to clean almost any infected computer. The methods I recommend are meant to be followed in the order in which they are introduced. The overarching idea is to be able to clean your computer with as little hassle as is necessary. Thus I only ask you to move on to more time consuming, or difficult, methods if the previous methods have been insufficient to remove the malware from your system.

All scanners can be found guilty of false positive detections sometimes. Therefore, before removing any files which you believe could possibly be safe you should check them out using the methods I discuss in How to Tell if a File is Malicious. If none of the programs I recommend are able to run, or your computer is unbootable, you should skip straight to the section that discusses how to Make A Bootable Disk.

The truth is that it's a lot easier to keep a computer malware free than it is to clean one that is already infected. However, with the advice given in this article you should be able to remove most malware from your computer and get it back to working order.

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