Technical Support:How to Detect and remove Malware Using Windows Defender

Windows Defender is an inbuilt tool into Windows Vista and available as a free download from Microsoft for XP users.

Windows Defender is easy to use and lets you do manual, scheduled, and real-time scanning with automatic updates of spyware signatures, without a large performance penalty.

If you have already installed or using a third-party anti-spyware application, there's really no need to keep Windows Defender's real-time scan enabled. In this case you can get a performance increase by disabling it.

Using Windows Defender

Selecting Tools and Settings will start you off in the appropriate window to stop applications from active on startup by selecting Software Explorer. Users can make other adjustments from here as well.

Selecting Tools and Settings will start you off in the appropriate window to stop applications from active on startup by selecting Software Explorer.

Some users find the Real-Time scanning annoying because the hard drive is always busy, just go into Options and disable it.  Uncheck the box for "use real-time protection". This is really helpful on a laptop, where every little bit of tweaking helps battery life.

Keep the automatic updates set so that you don’t have to worry about updating the protection database.

Microsoft Windows Defender allows users several options for scans. Quick Scans which scan essential OS directories, Full Scan which scans all files and folder, and Custom Scan which allows us to choose what to scan.

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Technical Support: Online PC scan and Virus Removal

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Technical Support: Online PC scan and Virus Removal

Viruses are basically the harmful programs which can enter into your computer through various means and can compromise the safety and security of your PC. When your computer system gets infected with viruses, you can easily recognize it because of your computer’s malfunctioning.

·         Some of the common signs of virus infection are as follows:

·          Your computer system crashes or reboots automatically.

·         Hard disk data present in your computer system gets corrupted

·         Hard disk is not detected or is not booting.

·         Computer becomes very slow in performing even normal operations like saving a file, copying data etc.

·         Some of the application software installed on your computer system crashes

·         Random messages appear on the monitor.

If you want to check the presence of viruses in your computer, you can scan your PC online and get a spyware blocker installed. Scanning your PC online will inform you about any infected files present in your system. Various online PC scanners are available from companies like Kaspersky, BitDefender, F-Secure, and many others.

Online PC scanner will run in a browser window on your computer system. There is no need for its installation. Online PC scanner is able to remove only those viruses which are already present on your computer system. However, it will not provide any protection in future. For complete computer security and virus removal from your PC in present date as well as in future you should install updated antivirus software on your computer system.

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