Gizmo's Freeware Reviews: How to Know If Your Computer Is Infected

2 January 2013
by Chiron

These days malicious software is becoming an epidemic. It seems like it's everywhere. Also, sadly, there's been a change in the way malware acts. It used to be that it would slow down your computer, or display annoying popups, but now malware is becoming increasingly discreet. You could be infected right now and not even know it. Also, sadly, it often seems as if the only way to make sure you're not infected is to scan your computer with numerous anti-malware programs. Doing this can be time consuming and, while scanning, may even slow your computer to a crawl. Even after that you still can't be sure you're clean. This is because scanners cannot recognize all new malware.

Because of these difficulties I have come up with a better method. This uses multiple programs, not to remove files, but just to analyze the computer. Each of these programs is very effective and easy to use. They are all portable applications and will not cause any conflicts on your computer because they are only running when you're using them. However, they do require an active internet connection to function properly. Don't worry, this guide will also help you to fix your internet connection in the event that it is not working. After you have already gone through the below process once, and had all files whitelisted, this approach is much faster, much more certain, and much easier than any other approach I've seen. No active malware can escape this process. However, inactive pieces of malware may not be flagged by this approach but may be found by other scanners. Rest assured that these are not direct threats to the safety of your computer and thus do not constitute a failure of this article.

I also want to stress that in order to make sure that your computer is not infected you must follow each step. None is meant to be used independently. Each depends on the others to account for different infection scenarios. Also, if any step shows definite evidence of an infection you should move directly to the section which explains How To Clean Infections From Computer. There is no reason to continue your investigation if your computer is already found to be infected.

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