You must have come across many instances where you find your PC acting weird and makes you wonder whats wrong. The situation is rather more frustrating if you are in a hurry to complete an urgent work. The basic kind of virus which infects system is known as MALWARE and you would be amazed to know that many renowned antivirus are unable to detect such malwares. But you need not to worry about your work and PC, since we are going to give you a walk through of detecting such virus all by yourself.
6 Ways To Detect A Virus Infecting Your PC In The Easiest Way
1. The most non-typical moment when your antivirus is turned off and you have no idea how did it happen. Generally, malwares which does not get detected by antivirus tends to turn off their protection automatically and makes the system vulnerable. So from next time, if your antivirus gets automatically switched off. Just do a thorough checkup of your machine and see if any extra softwares are installed in your machine which you did not intend to. If yes then delete them asap.
2. This generally happens in a Cyber Cafe but your own system is no different from a Cyber Cafe’s machine if you have this tendency to click on any other link which is shown on a webpage. Or rather to be more precise, surfing adult sites and clicking on an ad can lead you to any other website and one more click to that other website will redirect you to some other website and this goes on and on. After that, this would make you browser vulnerable with a hell lot of extensions installed without your knowledge and you won’t be able to surf the internet normally. The only solution is to keep a check on your clicks while surfing a website.
3. Whenever you see extra popups appearing on your window after you’v opened a new webpage. Its advisable to close that webpage since it can harm your computer by crashing the system or by injecting a virus even if your antivirus is active. Or if the webpage is important to you and closing it is not an option then just simply let all the popups open and close them one by one by avoiding clicking on the content of it.
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4. When you are surfing a website and see a banner on top of the page “Your computer is affected with virus. Click here for free scan”. These offers might sound helpful but these fishy banners are actually gateway to make your machine affected and leak your personal information. Do not ever ever click on such offers.
5. These days every one is Facebook and since its one of the largest platform to share information between friends and colleagues. Hackers use many ways to get hold off to your social accounts. One of the ways is when you see a link on your feed from your friends account who doesn’t even know is spreading from his account. Don’t ever click on those links since they can infect your account too and can send an automated message to your friends in your account.
6. If you use internet on your personal computer and if your PC is infected with a virus, probability of your internet traffic getting sucked by the virus is high. So, if you are not getting the speed according to your ISP, just do a check by installing softwares such as iTraffic Monitor which monitors the programs using the internet.
We think we covered all the major virus infecting issues. If we missed any, let us know in the comments section below.
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