Virus & Spyware Clean-up
Roughly 90% of computers are infected with at least one virus or spyware of some sort. They can cause all sorts of problems, from annoying pop-ups, to privacy invasions, to data corruption to Windows completely crashing!
Even the best anti-virus program can’t catch everything. So when we scan a computer for viruses and spyware, we use many different tools to make sure that we’ve caught even the sneakiest of infections.
When you get your computer back, you can be sure that every measure has been taken to make sure that your PC is free of viruses and spyware.
Virus Infection Removal
Viruses come from everywhere these days. You can get them from opening unsafe emails, visiting unsafe websites, or not having your computer protected. The most advanced viruses today will trick your antivirus software into believing that it isn’t infected with anything at all! Some even pose as anti-virus, anti-spyware or even register cleaning software that attempt to make you purchase their software. More often than not, a computer is infected with a virus and the owner doesn’t even know it!
Viruses can cause a variety of problems with your computer. They can slow down a network, destroy documents, delete files, and generally wreck everything.
Most of the time, if you’ve already been badly infected, we can undo the damage those viruses caused without having to format the computer and reinstall Windows. Adware and Spyware Cleanup
Spyware and Adware are two sides of the same coin. They aren’t as malicious as viruses are, but just as annoying. They frequently will simply display ads and popups all over computer. The bad ones will go through your email and send itself to all of your friends. The really bad ones will wait until you log into your online banking or something similar and then send your password to hackers overseas.
The latest round of infections are from ‘Rogue’ software programs designed by hackers, that insist they are real software designed to disinfect or clean your system of viruses or spyware. These rogue/fake pieces of software will report false-positive infections in an attempt to have your purchase the ‘full-version’ of their software. That is their primary goal. They will not destroy your computer’s files or anything that malicious, but they are very annoying and will slow down your computer tremendously. These are typically very difficult to remove as well.
We remove thousands of viruses, spyware, adware and malware infections on a daily basis. We also provide software and services to help you prevent getting infected in the first place.