If you have a file on ur comp that has a virus and u delete the it can the virus still spead to other files?
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Yes. A virus can replicate itself. Run a virus scan and delete all virus thru there.
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AVG is a good one , u can download it from 'download.com' for free. but make sure you are scanning ur files in safe mode.\n\nin normal mode it is not possible to delete some running files. to go to safe mode( if u r using windows) while PC starts press 'F8' button and select safe mode option and run the antivirus from there...\ni m sure it'll work
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Yes...for one, you're asking this question in the wrong place.\nFor another, you probably need a better computer.\nAlso, you might just need to clean up your current computer of old files no longer in use.\nAnd last, if the above are not the problems, you probably have a (1)Virus, (2)Block, or (3)they are slow,not you.
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They can carry viruses just like on any other storage medium (hard disk, floppy disk etc). A brand new one should be fine though and as long as you virus scan anything that you put onto it.
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simple it tells you the directory of where the file is located, what you can do is go to the dir of the file and manually delete it make sure internet explorer is closed if its finding spyware or a known virus.
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No. If you had a network set up and used something like Norton Ghost you could do that. But a bad virus would wipe the hard drive including the images.
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I use an incoming folder which has a icon on my desktop. Then when they are downloaded to there I can do anti virus on them before sending them to my documents folder. Doing it this way one doesn't slip through to my documents before i've run anti virus on it.
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Disinfecting a file is completely "safe" only if the disinfecting process restores the non-infected state of the object completely.  That is, not only the virus must be removed from the file, but the original length of the file must be restored exactly, as well as its time and date of last modification, all fields in the header, etc.  Sometimes it is necessary to be sure that the file is placed on the same clusters of the disk that it occupied prior to infection.  If this is not done, then a program which uses some kind of self-checking or copy protection may stop functioning properly, if at all.\n\nNone of the currently available disinfecting programs do all this. For instance, because of the bugs that exist in many viruses, some of the information of the original file is destroyed and cannot be recovered. Other times, it is even impossible to detect that this information has been destroyed and to warn the user.  Furthermore, some viruses corrupt information very slightly and in a random way (Nomenklatura, Phoenix), so that it is not even possible to tell which files have been corrupted.\n\nTherefore, it is usually better to replace the infected objects with clean backups, provided you are certain that your backups are uninfected .  Back-up systems:\n1. If you've downloaded shareware, copy it (preferably as a ZIP or other original archive file) onto your backup medium and do not re-back it up later.\n2. If you have purchased commercial software, it's best to create a ZIP (or other) archive from the original diskettes (assuming they're not copy protected) and transfer the archive onto that medium.  Again, do not re-back up.\n3. If you write your own programs, back up only the latest version of the *source* programs.  Depend on recompilation to reproduce the executables.\n4. If an executable has been replaced by a new version, then of course you will want to keep a backup of the new version.  However, if it has been modified as a result of your having changed configuration information, it seems safer *not* to back up the modified file; you can always re-configure the backup copy later if you have to.\n5. Theoretically, source programs could be infected, but until such a virus is discovered, it seems preferable to treat such files as non-executables and back them up whenever you modify them.  The same advice is probably appropriate for batch files as well, despite the\nfact that a few batch file infectors have been discovered.
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Never delete an infected file, clean or quarantine the file! Any modern antivirus will do the work for you...if it will not, rerun the check in safemode.
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A complete format of your hardisk can totally take you out from each and every virus and also it will clear everything. But be careful to run free spyware checks and antiviruses, They can only help you to find out the virus but you have to need some professional versions.
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It's a malformed file that contains harmful code that will cause problems to your computer.You shoul delete or quarantine that file.
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it gets viruses from the computer
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Yes but it wouldn't leave anything else on your computer either because it would mean reformatting the hard drive(s). And if you don't have anti-virus software then your machine will be infected the next time you link to the Internet - from memory it's about 5 minutes or so.
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Yap you can delete this whole folder it will not hamrmfull for your computer but be carefull do't delete others well in the system volume information folder there are always a lot of viruses but they cannot harm your computer if you do't delete them then also no problem...
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If you are on a local network (meaning your two computers are connected to a Linksys or Netgear router, for example), it is possible that a virus on one computer can be transferred to the other via the network. \n\nAs for your second question, the simple answer would be "No". Say you opened up an e-mail that had an attachment with a virus in it. You open it and now your computer is infected. If you were to disconnect that computer from the Cable/DSL Modem and reconnect another one, the virus would not "transfer" over because you didn't open the e-mail from that second computer. This answer is based on the assumption that no local network exists in your home. \n\nHope I clarified this for you.
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Of course it can. It's just a computer program, remember? It can do *anything* that is doable by a program - including stopping its spread and even removing itself from the infected machine. In fact, there are many viruses that spread only on certain dates or that stop spreading after certain dates.\n\nHowever, you can't rely on this. By far not all viruses are like this (in fact, only a disappearingly small subset of them are) and you can't know in advance whether the virus that has infected your machine is of this kind or not. Besides, even if the virus gives up and removes itself after a while, it can still do a lot of damage while it is still active.\n\nSo, you should run up-to-date anti-virus software and get rid of the virus, instead of waiting for it to "give up".
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Yes, go to 'Add/Remove Programs' in the Control Panel.\nRemove the undesired program.\nIf the program folder is still listed in your Program Files, delete that too.\n\nMake sure your virus software is updated and do a full scan to make sure there aren't reinstallers for it on your computer.