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Adware, viruses, trojans, spyware, ransomware and rootkits are everywhere these days, and keeping our PCs free of malware is a constant struggle.
Regardless of how diligent we are at preventing malware infections they can still manage to make their way onto our hard drives and into our computers’ memory banks.
Once a PC is infected, ridding it of every scrap of malware can be extremely difficult.
But it can be done! This post explains how, step-by-step. [Read more…]
Over the years I’ve worked on lots of computers that exhibited all the classic signs of a malware infection.
And as you might expect, many of the owners of those machines insisted that the problem couldn’t possibly be malware because they regularly scan their systems with antivirus programs.
But when I ran my own scans on those systems, I often discovered that they were indeed infected, some of them with dozens of viruses, spyware objects, malicious toolbars and other digital nasties.
How could that be? [Read more…]
Question from Geneva P.: I keep reading about all the computer viruses going around and how they can cause you a bunch of problems.
I’m a complete dummy when it comes to this stuff, Rick. How can I find out if my computer is infected?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]