Wednesday, July 2, 2014

How To Remove Spyware From Your Computer

By Rosella Campbell


Obviously, the best way to prevent spyware from entering your computer system is to prevent it from beings downloaded. However, this is a solution that does not work for all people, a more reason why you need to learn how to remove spyware. The benefit of this is that you will be able to prevent malicious programmers who take advantage of security problems from stealing private information from you.

The first thing you need to do is to download spyware detection and removal software from the internet. A number of software is available for download and some of the best examples include Spybot Search and Destroy, the Hijackthis and the Windows Defender. It should not be difficult to search for any of these and find safe downloads online.

Try to identify the most important files in your computer system even before you begin using the software you downloaded. The reason why you want o identify the most important data is that once you start using the software you may lose data by accident or by misdiagnose. Make sure the information you will need is safe by backing up in an external storage medium.

Some of the most important data include personal files and folders, work related details and information and computer programs you will need for later use. Buy an external hard drive if you do not have one and use it to store all information. The best thing with an external hard drive is that you can attach it to your computer system and access all information at once.

Once you complete backing up all or the most important data from your computer system, disconnect your computer from the internet and then reboot it. Do not start windows normally as you would when you want to use it, instead, reboot in Safe Mode. Proceed to the next step once your computer system starts.

Scan your computer system using the anti-spyware software you previously downloaded from the internet. It is important to note that the anti-spyware software is helpful because it will automatically remove infected files and folders from your laptop or desktop computer. The other method that you can use is to uninstall infected software files from your computer using uninstall utility programming from your control panel.

Restart your system once you are done with uninstalling and see if the problem is solved. It is important to note that using anti-spyware software is good enough to solve the problem. If one software does no, you will want to try another one and see if the next one works better than the previous.

You may have to format the entire hard drive and then install a new operating system. Of course, this is the worst thing you want to think about so you want to try all possible solutions until you are sure this is the only way out. If all the available means do not work well for you or in the least solve the problem, backup all data and then proceed with formatting. Make sure you have the software ready to install after you reinstall your operating system.




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