How to Remove Conficker Virus

The Register reports that 3 in 10 windows PC are vulnerable to conficker attacks. Conficker removal tools are fortunately available for those whose computers have gotten the nasty worm. Here's an article on how to remove conficker virus.

The conficker computer worm, also known as downup, downandup and Kido first surfaced in 2008 but as of January 17,IBN Live reports that 6.5 million computers have already been infected by this virus. There is also link between conficker and rogue antivirus protection tools. In April 2009, PC world reported that conficker actually installs rogue anti virus protection programs. These softwares pretend to be legitimate security tools but are actually malwares. Examples of these include the rogue antivirus protection trial and antivirus center.*

The downadup worm also gathers personal information and installs malware into the infected computer. The downadup worm also attaches to several windows processes including svchost.exe, explorer.exe and services.exe. When the downadup or conficker worm is executed, the win 32 downadup virus may disable system processes in the compromised computer. Removing conficker virus should be done as soon as these symptoms appear in your computer.

Conficker virus removal
Because the conficker worm also spreads through portable storage devices such as USB drives, disabling your PC's autorun feature for external media is recommended. The following are conficker worm removal applications that you may want to check out:

Conficker Removers

Several Win32 conficker removal tools are now available. Check out the following downadup/conficker remover tool links:
Symantec W32.Downadup Removal Tool
F-SECURE Malware Removal Tool
Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal tool

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How to Remove Antivirus 2009 for Free

This post provides you information on how to remove antivirus 2009 for free.

If you have the antivirus 2009 in your computer system, what you really have is a spyware. Your computer system gets infected with this spyware when you download free software programs in your computer. AV2009.exe works by installing and gathering data from your PC even without your permission.

How to detect antivirus 2009

If an antivirus pro 2009 pops out in your computer and there have been excessive popups in your computer system, chances are your PC has the antivirus 2009 virus. Other symptoms include changed computer settings and very slow computer performance. You will be able to detect if you have the Antivirus 2009 by using a good spyware Detection Tool.

How to get rid of the antivirus 2009 program

If you are looking for a free way to remove this spyware, then you can manually delete the Antivirus 2009 files in your PC. There are several websites in the internet that provide information on how to remove antivirus2009.exe files in your computer but manual antivirus 2009 removal can be difficult so others are opting for automatic computer virus malware removal tools such as the malware bytes malware remover tool.

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