Common Symptoms of Computer Virus
The symptoms possess some distinct characteristics, and if your machine has been infected by one, it is very likely that you will see the effects immediately. The basic working of the computer will be greatly affected due to faulty performance, and you will be unable to perform many functions that you used to perform earlier with ease. Some of the symptoms of infection are as follows.
1- The computer is running considerably slower than normal for no apparent reason.
2- The machine is crashing and restarting by itself after every few minutes.
3- The applications and the programs on the machine are not working correctly, or are not responding to any commands.
4- The machine is not responding in general, and everything is simply frozen.
5- There are error messages popping out on a regular basis.
6- Your files and folders are getting deleted automatically.
7- Your disks and drives are not working properly.
8- There are unknown and uninstalled icons on your desktop suddenly.
9- The antivirus software that you have is not working properly, or it has been disabled.
10- You are unable to install a new antivirus program on your computer.
11- Printouts that you take are faulty and incorrect.
12- There are unexpected and unknown noises and sounds that come out on their own.
13- Your programs and applications have disappeared from the machine without your intentionally deleting them.
14- New windows keep opening up at an alarming rate.
The most annoying aspect of these is that it can crop up at any time, and once it comes, it can affect any part of your machine. It can disable many important applications and programs, and can even corrupt physical hardware on your machine. As a result of these symptoms the workability of a machine gets seriously disabled, and it becomes impossible to perform any task at all.
1- The computer is running considerably slower than normal for no apparent reason.
2- The machine is crashing and restarting by itself after every few minutes.
3- The applications and the programs on the machine are not working correctly, or are not responding to any commands.
4- The machine is not responding in general, and everything is simply frozen.
5- There are error messages popping out on a regular basis.
6- Your files and folders are getting deleted automatically.
7- Your disks and drives are not working properly.
8- There are unknown and uninstalled icons on your desktop suddenly.
9- The antivirus software that you have is not working properly, or it has been disabled.
10- You are unable to install a new antivirus program on your computer.
11- Printouts that you take are faulty and incorrect.
12- There are unexpected and unknown noises and sounds that come out on their own.
13- Your programs and applications have disappeared from the machine without your intentionally deleting them.
14- New windows keep opening up at an alarming rate.
The most annoying aspect of these is that it can crop up at any time, and once it comes, it can affect any part of your machine. It can disable many important applications and programs, and can even corrupt physical hardware on your machine. As a result of these symptoms the workability of a machine gets seriously disabled, and it becomes impossible to perform any task at all.
What to do when you find viruses
First thing what you should do when you find virus is count to ten and stay cool. You should keep notes on what you do and write down what your virus programs and you computer tells you. If you are not sure what to do, you should call the administrator for future action. In some cases it is not good to start you computer from hard disk, because the virus may active and then do some harm.
Second,make sure that you should get sure that it is virus and what virus it is. It is important to know what kind of virus we are dealing with. Companies that make anti-virus programs knows what different viruses does and you can ether call them and ask about that viruses or you can go to their web pages and read about the virus you have. When you start you computer you should do it from a clean (non-infected) floppy diskette and after that run the virus program. The boot diskette should be write protected so that virus can not infect the boot diskette too. It is good to take a backup of the file that was infected. Virus program could do some damage to the file and that is why it is good to have a backup.
Third, it is good to let you administrator to know about the virus, so viruses would not spread around so much.
In TKK PC classes are protected by anti-virus program and that virus program reports to a person, responsible for virus
protection.