Tips Of Recognize Computer Virus
Monitoring Your Computer’s Performance Keeping Tabs On Your Programs Taking Care Of A Virus Infection
Monitoring Your Computer’s Performance
Monitoring Your Computer’s Performance
Check your hard drive activity – If you are not running any programs and your hard drive light is constantly turning on and off and you can hear the hard drive working then you may have a virus in your computer.
Look at your modem lights - If you don’t have any programs running and your modem transfer lights are constantly blinking, you may have a virus that is transmitting data over the network.
Keeping Tabs On Your Programs
Keeping Tabs On Your Programs
Make note of program crashes – Computer regular programs start more crashing and virus may have infected in the operating system. Programs take longer to load and perform extra slow.
Looks for popup – If your computer have virus then you may start seeing massages appear on your screen van if no other programs are running. These can include advertisements and error messages.
Be wary of granting programs firewall access – If you get constant messages about a program requesting access to your firewall and program may be infected. you receive these massage because the program is trying to send data through your router.
Check your web browser – Your web browser may open new home pages and not allow you to close tabs.popups may appear as soon as you open the browser this is a good sign that your browser has been hijacked by a virus.
Taking Care Of A Virus Infection
Run an antivirus program – You computer should always have a antivirus program installed and running on your computer. if you can’t access the internet because of the virus infection then you may need to download the program on another computer.
Boot into safe mode – Your antivirus program more effective if you run it in safe mode. To enter safe mode reboot your computer and strike the f8 key until the advanced boot menu appears.
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Anthony Merseal is the CIO of First Choice Heating and Cooling, currently doing the study in Mineral Area Collage as a computer science student.