Great virus removal tips
Monday, February 23, 2009 10:26On Dec 31, 2008 I found myself plagued with a virus because I just visisted a site. Not because I downloaded something from it, but because I just visited the page. I had McAfee antivirus running and had never had an issue in over a decade of web stuff. Then, and I’m fairly certain it was SendSpace.com and an embeded PDF that prompted the whole thing, I notice my computer just running like crazy and the fan and a notice that McAfee cannot reach the update server.
That began a long and arduous process of rebuilding the hard drive. I finally caved and went ahead and upgraded the hard drive but still had to ensure all documents and files were bug free. (Will I ever really know that for sure?)
I found this article on Virus Removal at The Powers Zone which had some good tips in it (after I was done of course!). I am now running McAfee and SuperAnti Spyware in it’s real-time protection mode. (NOTE: Had I thought of it beforehand I could have popped the HD out of the notebook, slid it into my external dock on my desktop and done the scan which cleaned it without any of the hours of laboring over it.)
