How To Remove Virus From Windows OS

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1 9/30/2018 How To Remove Virus From Windows OS Detailed Instructions To Remove Virus From Your MAC OS Step 1. Ending Process Running Under The Ac tivity Monitor 1. Type Activity Monitor in the Launchpad to open it; Launchpad Activity Minor Scroll through the list of running apps, look for the suspicious ones that appear unknown to you or taking huge CPU resources. 3. Use the [x] button to quit the process. 1/26

2 Force Stop -1.2 and 1.3 Step 2. Remove Malicious Apps From Mac OS 1. Open Finder by clicking on the Finder application on your dock. Finder In the left pane of the Finder, click on Applications. 2/26

3 Applications Next, you need to locate the Virus/suspicious apps and remove them. The Applications window will display the list of all apps installed on your Mac OS. Step Now, you need to go through the list to find out the suspicious/malicious or infectious app, select it then right click and then select Move to Trash. (Repeat this step until you remove all such apps). 5. Now you need to empty the trash as sometimes program can restore themselves from the trash. On your dock, right-click on the trash icon and then select Empty Trash. 3/26

4 NOTE: if something looks suspicious to you but you are not sure of that, search the web to find out more about that app. Move to Trash 2.4 Step /26

5 Step 3. Remove Apps From Au to-startup Generally, malicious programs, Virus and spyware add themselves to the boot process to launch automatically whenever the device boots. So, you need to find such apps and remove from the startups. 1. Open Apple menu System Preferences Step Now, choose Users & Groups section 5/26

6 Step Select your username from the left pane; 6/26

7 Step A list will appear showing login items; check the list and use sign to disable any suspicious or unwanted apps you see. Close the screen. 7/26

8 Step Next step, from top menu choose Go Go to Folder, then type /Users/Shared/ within the search box. In the Sharedfolder, you need to delete the Similar files and folders. 8/26

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10 Step Now Restart your Mac to make the changes into effect. Step 3.6 Step 4. Remove Daemons An d Agents From Mac s Startup 1. From top menu Choose Go Go to Folder 10/26

11 Step Type in /Library/LaunchDaemons, within this location you will see lots of files with.plist extension. Scroll through it and find the ones which appear to be suspicious and delete them. Step /26

12 Step Do the same for other launching agents locations: /Library/LaunchAgents 2. ~/Library/LaunchAgents For example: an Virus named Vsearch, you may get launching agent as : / Library/LaunchAgents/com.vsearch.agent.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.vsearch.agent.pli st Don t forget to empty the trash and then restart the computer. Step /26

13 Step After restart, again repeat step 1-2 and type in: /System/Library/Frameworks/ (look for the malicious file with.framework extension like /System/Library/Frameworks/VSearch.framework) Step Step Put the file to trash, if you find one with a malicious name. 6. Similarly, do more searches within the location: 13/26

14 /Library/Application Support/ /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/ Step Step Step /26

15 Step Put them to trash and again empty the trash and restart the computer. Step /26

16 Step Step Step 5. Uninstall Unwanted/Suspicious Extensions From Browsers 5.1 Safari Browser Guide Follow the steps to remove unwanted and suspicious extensions from Safari browser: On the Safari browser, click the Safari menu then select Preferences. 16/26

17 Reset Mac Chrome Step-1 On the General tab of the Safari preferences, check for any unknown URL added as the default homepage, Within the Homepage field enter your preferred URL as your default start-page of the browser. Reset Mac Chrome Step /26

18 Next, you need to check for malicious extensions, click on the Extensions tab on the same window. Extensions screen will list all the extensions installed on your safari browser, you need to browse through the list and uninstall the ones which appear to be Virus. If you find a malicious extension select it and then click on Uninstall. Repeat the steps to remove all unwanted extensions. Close the Safari browser. 5.2 Chrome Browser Guide To check for unknow n extension s installed: 1. Click on Chrome Menu(three vertical dots at top-right corner) Select Settings Choose Extensions. Remove Chrome Extensions 1 2. Scroll through the list of extensions installed on the Chrome browser, if any one of them appears to malicious then click on the trash icon next to it. This will remove the extension. 18/26

19 Remove Chrome Extensions 2 3. Repeat the step until you are sure of the ones you like to keep. To Reset The Brow ser: Next, you need to reset the default settings like search engines, startup, and new tabs. It is better to use the default reset feature of the Google Chrome which will reset all the unwanted modifications done by third-party programs. Don t worry you will not lose your saved passwords and bookmarks. However, it will delete cookies, extensions, startups, URLs, homepage and new tabs preferences. Click on Chrome s main menu then choose Settings. 19/26

20 Reset Browser Chrome 1 Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on Advanced. Reset Browser Chrome 2 Under the Advanced page, go for Reset and clean up section, then click on Reset settings to their original defaults. 20/26

21 Reset Browser Chrome 3 Next, click on Reset, you will be prompted for a confirmation This will reset your startup page, new tab page, search engine, and pinned tabs. It will also disable all extensions and clear temporary data like cookies. Your bookmarks, history, and saved passwords will not be cleared Click on the Reset Settings button to confirm the procedure. Reset Browser Chrome 4 After that, it may ask to restart your browser, click Yes. Use Anti-Malware To Remove Virus From Your MAC OS 21/26

22 Combo Cleaner is a complete security suite for Mac OS that is developed by RCS LT company. This program is featured with anti-virus scanner and system optimization tools like disk cleaner, duplicate files finder, application uninstaller, privacy scanner, and 24*7 customer support service. Rather than being just a traditional anti-virus or a system optimizer, this single program takes a different approach that eases the user from using a different application to keep their MAC OS protected and optimized. It is very important to have a reliable anti-virus solution for the computer system. Combo cleaner is one of the best options for MAC users as detects and eliminates all sorts of threats like Virus, browser hijacker, Trojans, and other malware. It is a light-themed, easy-to-use interface and keeps updating its threat database hourly to instant detect and remove any sort of malware. Thus ensuring not any malicious stuff is behind within the system. How to Install and Scan with Combo Cleaner Click here to Download the Combo Cleaner ; Once the download completes, doubleclick on the downloaded file; After the window opens, drag the Combo Cleaner program icon and drop into your Applications folder icon. Download Combo Cleaner Combo Cleaner Install Step 2 Now, open your Launchpad and click on the Combo Cleaner icon. 22/26

23 Combo Cleaner Install Step 3 This will start the combo cleaner installation and updates its latest virus definition. Once done, Combo cleaner will launch; Combo Cleaner Dashboard 23/26

24 Click on Antivirus tab and choose the scan options like Quick, Full, and custom. (Full is recommended for the first time) Combo Cleaner Antivirus Scan Let the scan be completed and it will list all the threat found. Now, click on Remove All Threats ; 24/26

25 Combo Cleaner Scan Results After removing the threats, click on the uninstaller to find and remove any unwanted programs. Select the program from the list and its related files and then click on Remove Selected Items 25/26

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