Virus repair and removal

Computer viruses are small software programs that are designed to spread from one computer to another and to interfere with computer operation.

A virus might corrupt or delete data on your computer, use your email program to spread itself to other computers, or even erase everything on your hard disk.

Computer viruses are often spread by attachments in email messages or instant messaging messages. That is why it is essential that you never open email attachments unless you know who it's from and you are expecting it.

Viruses can be disguised as attachments of funny images, greeting cards, or audio and video files.

Computer viruses also spread through downloads on the Internet. They can be hidden in illicit software or other files or programs you might download.

To help avoid computer viruses, it's essential that you keep your computer current with the latest updates and antivirus tools, stay informed about recent threats, run your computer as a standard user (not as administrator), and that you follow a few basic rules when you surf the Internet, download files, and open attachments.

Once a virus is on your computer, its type or the method it used to get there is not as important as removing it and preventing further infection.

Viruses, pop-up ads, spyware and malware

Sometimes a virus can infect your computer even if you have installed anti-virus software and kept it up to date. Even after you have downloaded new software from the internet that promises to identify and remove the problem - the problem persists. A computer virus is a malicious self-replicating program. The longer you use an infected computer, the greater the chance that you will lose data, corrupt your files and operating system and infect other computers.

Our IT engineers can help with removing viruses, adware, spyware or pop-ups. Anything malicious and self replicating that needs to be removed. In many cases viruses, worms and trojans will alter the code in your registry and load itself everytime you reboot your computer. Software downloads won't always solve this problem. In this event our computer engineers will visit your premises to diagnose your problem.

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