How to recover from PC virus attack?

Computers have been fighting with the viruses, as long as our generation cares to remember. There are many ways to stay away from PC virus attack but what if the virus has already attacked your system and you want to get it recovered from the experience?

Here is how you can go about it.

Terminate the Internet Connection

To stop the virus from spreading and letting it transmit the data on your system, this step is crucial. The process of isolation works best in both the office as well as the home network, though the businesses can face issues by not being online (and even lose revenue), unless the virus gets cleared.

Scan the system with the available anti-virus tool

The antivirus must be run when the system is disconnected from the Internet. Scanning the system with the anti-virus is the next step on the list. With this, you ensure a way to locate the program that was the reason your system was working in an unexpected manner. The antivirus should perform as an anti-malware program, and catch spyware as well as other malicious programs. If your software is rendered useless due to the malware, the next best thing is to reboot the system and use CD / DVD of the antivirus to scan the system. And run a Full System Scan and not just the drives to exercise complete PC virus protection.

Delete the found infectious files

This is the easiest of all the steps. By clicking delete files, you eliminate the programs that might have been tampering with your data. Then your next step gets rather tedious if important. Restore the previous settings as well as the backup files and folder from wherever you have created the backup (by try it is not from Windows System Restore point, because it has the potential to re-corrupt the system from the virus that you have work so hard to get rid of).

Reinstall the software you want

You might want to restore the software you were in the  habit of using. To do that, best would be to reinstall them. Doing this would restrict the download to the minimum, and only of the required ones. Do not forget to get all your software from reliable and trustworthy sources only; else, you might need to undertake the whole process again.

From here on, do not forget to keep updating the backup. After all, keeping the data safe and tamper-averse is the whole point of antivirus (or anti-malware for that matter).