You wake up one morning, having just suffered one of the worst nightmares of your life. Your computer got infected with a virus, and you lost everything on it. Oh well. It was just a dream. You go over and turn on your computer. An error message pops up. It seems that your nightmare is replaying itself out right in front of your eyes on your computer. But, unlike your nightmare, there is hope to clean it up. You could reinstall your hard drive, but you don't really want to. You could try to clean it up manually, but that doesn't always work.
There is also a very big choice that you could do more damage than that nightmare virus has already done. You have to be very careful to make sure you know what you are doing.
If your computer is giving you error messages, it may be helpful to write down those messages, and then search for them online. Make sure you have exact wording.
If you are trying to self diagnose the problem online, you will need to identify when, where, and possibly how the problem started. If you are able to do that, your problem is well on the road to being solved.
If your computer is infected with a virus, don't get online with that computer. Need to search the web to try to self diagnose the computer problem? Use a different computer that has a good anti virus program on it. Remember, if you have a good anti virus program on all your computers, you won't be in situations like the one you are in.
If you think you can remove all the virus files from your computer, you will need to go into the registry of your computer. Be real careful here, you could very easily delete files by mistake. When they are gone, they are only gone if you need them.
If you are lucky enough to have a second 'healthy' computer that has good anti virus programs on it and also has an external hard drive, you could remove the infected hard drive and place it in the good computer to let the anti virus program try to clean it up for you.
You must of course use great caution here, as it is likely that you will give the other computer the same virus. This is especially true if the anti virus program is old or has not been updated in a while.
There is also a very big choice that you could do more damage than that nightmare virus has already done. You have to be very careful to make sure you know what you are doing.
If your computer is giving you error messages, it may be helpful to write down those messages, and then search for them online. Make sure you have exact wording.
If you are trying to self diagnose the problem online, you will need to identify when, where, and possibly how the problem started. If you are able to do that, your problem is well on the road to being solved.
If your computer is infected with a virus, don't get online with that computer. Need to search the web to try to self diagnose the computer problem? Use a different computer that has a good anti virus program on it. Remember, if you have a good anti virus program on all your computers, you won't be in situations like the one you are in.
If you think you can remove all the virus files from your computer, you will need to go into the registry of your computer. Be real careful here, you could very easily delete files by mistake. When they are gone, they are only gone if you need them.
If you are lucky enough to have a second 'healthy' computer that has good anti virus programs on it and also has an external hard drive, you could remove the infected hard drive and place it in the good computer to let the anti virus program try to clean it up for you.
You must of course use great caution here, as it is likely that you will give the other computer the same virus. This is especially true if the anti virus program is old or has not been updated in a while.
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