Excellent Free Malware Removal Tips

This post is not for the ones who can afford to install and maintain pricey commercial grade anti-virus applications. This post is also not for corporate users. Rather I am posting this for most common home PC users who may, at times, find it difficult to buy, install and maintain commercial anti-virus application. When I say this, home PC users (my targeted audience) need not feel deficient because the efficiency and reliability of no commercial anti-virus application is beyond question. I have seen many users going down with popular and much-hyped anti-virus application.

Dear readers, let me ask you a few question. Did you notice any of the following strange behavior of your computer lately?

1. Windows loads too slowly. It takes forever to wait for a login screen to appear.

2. The hard-drive spins like crazy when you're not doing anything that requires constant reading/writing operations. For example, you may be reading email with no other applications open except for email client. There's no reason for the hard-drive to spin, but it spins!

3. Desktop wallpaper is replaced by something you definitely didn't install.
4. When searching via Google or other search engine you get redirected to ugly websites instead of those you clicked on.

5. Some websites are simply unavailable. This most often happens with sites of security software companies. The reason is evident: malware programmers don't want you to download any anti-malware cure and so they make their malware block access to most popular security websites likes McAfee or AVG (to prevent you from reaching the free malware removers which these websites offer quite a lot).

If you have noticed any of these, you are most likely infected with malware.

There is simple trick to see if your computer is already compromised with malware. Go to Start, Click Run and type MSCONFIG and click Ok. When the System Configuration Utility window opens select Startup Tab. Now check carefully the Startup items. If you see processes that show ‘something.exe’ in the Command Column, these are suspicious or, in most cases, malicious processes. Another trick to check these is to see if these ‘something.exe’ processes’ path in the command column start with the drive letter of your Primary Drive (means drive where is OS is installed – in most cases ‘C’). If the paths do not start with the Drive Letter, it’s a malicious process in all probability. Uncheck these entries and click Ok to save settings. Then restart.

Install one of the three following three Free Malware Removal Tools after downloading them from the links given below:

1. Malwarebyte's anti-malware
2. SUPERAntiSpyware
3. a-squared anti-malware

Do not under-rate these programs because they are free. Malwarebyte's anti-malware has the distinction of detecting and effectively removing three top most virus (Trojan) threats of 2008, namely, Virtumonde, Vundo and Zlob. Super Anti-Spyware has Direct Access Detection System and is capable of detecting and removing the pesky hidden viruses and rootkits. A-squared has virus database of over 1 million threats, which is very impressive. Download one or all of them from this link, where you get to know about these applications in much more details:

http://hubpages.com/hub/Remove-Trojan-Virus-for-Free

After installing, update for latest patches. Run full system scan twice restarting the computer after each scan.

I hope you will be happy to see the result. Good Day.