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What To Do If You Get A Virus

Even if you are careful to avoid a computer virus, you may still be unlucky. If you are you'll need to get a piece of software called a virus scanner. Many people put off getting a decent virus scanner because it costs too much, or they think they won't get a virus.
They cost around $40 from most good computer stores. This will include a certain amount of updates and technical support for a year. Updates after this period can be obtained at fairly low cost.
It may seem like an extra unnecessary outlay, but if you are running a small business from your home computer then you need to protect your work. Backups can help, but if you put your work back on a machine with a virus it will just get infected again.

How do they do that?
Before you go and spend hard earned cash on a virus scanner it is worth understanding what they do.

A typical virus scanner will have two main functions:

scan for new viruses entering your computer
clean up any viruses it finds and make sure they can't do any more harm

Virus scanners are pieces of software that run all the time. So when you start up your computer the virus scanner will also start. This ensures that viruses are caught as soon as possible. A virus scanner will also check the following for viruses:

disks inserted in your PC
email you receive
programs you download from the Internet

If you have already got a computer virus, the software will find these and:

Notify you that you have a virus (stay calm!)
Try to repair the file the virus has infected
Isolate any files that can't be repaired

The virus scanner will always try to rescue any files it can. There are some viruses that don't destroy files, instead they 'corrupt' them so they cannot be used. Good virus scanners can often reverse this.

If the scanner cannot repair a file, it will place it in a secure area so you can't run it by accident. Then you can send the virus to an anti-virus company. If it is a new one they will add it to their database and at least you will be able to help prevent other people catching it.

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