It is not uncommon for your system to suddenly slow down and hang. Mostly it is because of viruses and malware. Malware are programs which superficially look like genuine programs, but inside they are dangerous programs which establish themselves in your system and systemically hack data from your system. They then send this data to their developers who will then make good use of it by selling them to third parties. The kind of data it can steel include email ID's, passwords, credit card details, bank details, income tax details, shopping preferences, search results and so.
So having such programs in our system serious leaves us at risk of fraud and financial damages. Therefore to protect yourself from damages you will have to be vigilant about this software.
The modus operandi of most of these malware is similar. You will suddenly find plenty of pop up messages alerting you to a serious virus attack in your system. The malware then prompts you to install the so called antivirus which itself is the malicious program. Once you install it works in the back ground and send all the data to its developers.
Once installed it is very difficult to remove. It is not removed by the normal uninstallers provided with windows. The uninstalling it becomes a tedious, time consuming and dangerous task. To remove this malware you will have to erase all files with.exe and.bat extensions. You will also have to delete all.dll and.lnk files created by the malware. Other than this you will also need to delete all registry entries created by this program.
This program can also be removed by using a removal tool. Using a removal tool is much simpler process, but these are generally not free.
Since this malware is so resistant to removal prevention from infection will save us much trouble and financial loss. Your system generally gets exposed to this software through social networking site, through unknown suspicious sites and by piggy backing on legitimate software.
Hence to protect your system, you must always check the antecedents of the person whom you add as friends on social networking sites. Also ensure never to install programs from unknown publishers. Have a good antivirus and spyware installed and avoid visiting malicious sites.
By using these methods you should be able to greatly reduce your exposure to these malware.
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