Avira is one such smart antivirus which automatically updates itself and monitors and blocks the virus coming from pen drives, browsers and file system etc. The AVIRA antivirus is mainly focused on four areas: desktop, mail servers, file servers and proxy-dedicated solutions.

But still there are many people who does not update their anti virus and got infected with the following worms named Worm/Sober.J, Worm/Sober.P, Worm/Sober.Y and Worm/Stanit.A worms.

So for all these people experiencing the damaging effects of a virus infection, Avira’s researchers have prepared a free removal tool, which can be used to eliminate major distinct threats.

Fix:

Here is the free avira removal tool which lets you remove the following infections from your computer and perform so many other functions to keep your computer healthy.

It removes Worm/Sober.J, -Worm/Sober.P,Worm/Sober.Y,-W32/Stanit.A and fixes infected files, which are not severely damaged by the malware’s actions. it removes malware installed on your computer, remove the restrictions they cause for fulfilling their harmful actions. This tool can identify non viral files and remove them from your system.

It also provides registry cleaning form virus created entries in the registry in order to carry out their malicious actions or reload themselves at every computer start, so Avira Free Removal Tool is capable of deleting new virus added keys from the Windows Registry and can restores default values if the registry keys are modified by the malware.

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We have written about many restrictions removal tools and virus removal tools like Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool, Kinza Removal Tool, Virus Effect Remover and lot more other tips on virus problems

XPQuickFix is a portable freeware utility which lets you fix windows errors and remove restrictions caused due to virus and worms infection. It can correct 25 common Windows XP problems such as enable the Task Manager, enable Registry Editor, fix a CD autoplay, enable folder options 

Lets see what all features this tool provides and how to use it.

Fix:

The program interface is quite simple, with in single click you can remove the restrictions caused by virus infection.

It lets you restore the following set restrictions

• Enable Task Manager
• Enable Registry Editor
• Stop My Documents open at startup
• Enable Folder Options
• Restore missing Run dialog box
• Enable Command Prompt
• Restore My Computer (Computer) properties
• Restore Device Manager
• Fix delay in opening Explorer
• Restore grayed Explorer and Taskbar toolbars
• Restore My Documents properties
• Remove OEM splash and wallpaper
• Restore My Network Places to Desktop
• Enable Recovery Console
• Restore grayed file associations
• Fix right-click error
• Fix slow network file/shared/remote
• Restore Network icon to system tray
• Fix slow hotkeys
• Fix CD/DVD drive is missing or not recognized
• Fix CD autoplay
• Restore “Send To” context menu item
• Restore the native ZIP file integration
• Fix error 1606 couldn’t access network location
• Error when trying to access Add or Remove/ Program and Features program

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It could happen that you suddenly see some useless files created on your USB portable devices like pen drives, iPod and Memory Card etc. These files may be sometimes created by some virus infection which might have come after you had used your USB drive on any other computer which is already infected with some virus.

Read Also: Protect your computer from pen drive autorun.inf viruses

When you drive get infected normally the virus will create some virus executables and autorun.inf files which will make the executable run the next time you connect that drive to any other computer, so in order to remove virus from pen drive you will need to remove autorun.inf and other virus files

See Also: Free USB Flash Drive Protector

Here is how you can remove these files and make your drive free from virus

Fix:

USBDriveFresher [ via BlogsDNA ] is a free to use tool to clean up your USB drives from unwanted and useless files. It will remove the files like thumbs.db, or .Trashes folder etc and moreover you can also configure what to delete and what not to delete on your USB portable drive.

It can perform following type of clean ups

1. Customizable cleanup of files and folder which you specify

2. Predefined cleanup settings you had specified

3. Clean USB drive with a single mouse click

4. Auto cleanup of USB drive when it is plugged in to your computer

5. Folder deletion on USB Drive

Related Tip: Disabling Autorun Autoplay which may cause virus infection from pen drives

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We just got a mail from one of our reader who sees a blank desktop after he is logged in on his windows computer, here is what he had said in his mail.

when ever I try to logon to windows I can see the wall paper (no start button no desktop icons no nothing) when i hit ctrl,shift,esc. and i click on task manager  but explorer.exe is not running under process when i try to run it but i get an error saying "Windows cannot find explorer.exe – please solve my problem

This type of problem occurs when your computer get infected from the virus or spyware which has corrupted some registry keys which are related to explorer load.

Here is how you can fix this issue:

Fix:

Follow the procedure below

1. Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to launch task manager

2. Click File | New Task

3. Now type regedit and click Ok

4. Browse the following registry path

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoft
Windows NTCurrentVersionImage File Execution.options

5. Under this registry path, you will see subkeys named explorer.exe and iexplorer.exe.
These keys must be pointing to files created by the virus that have been removed (virus/spyware); explorer32dbg.exe and iexplore_dbg.exe.

6. Delete the explorer and iexplorer keys entirely.

7. Close Registry and restart your computer

I hope this procedure given above will help you fix the problem, if it does not let us know through comments.

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We have just got a mail from one of our reader saying that

I have got Khatra.exe virus on my computer, how can I remove it

This virus has some symptoms when ever you try to open browser and search remove khatra.exe the browser will automatically close, you can’t not delete khatra.exe or gHost.exe or Xplorer.exe which are created by the same virus as these processes will keep running.

Let’s discuss the removal procedure to delete khatra.exe or gHost.exe or Xplorer.exe virus

Fix:

Follow the procedure below

1. Open Task Manager but if task manager is blocked then unblock task manager and click the process tab, found these process named regsvr.exe(if found there), gHost.exe, khatra.exe and  Xplorer.exe, right click on all these process and select end process tree

2. Open Start Menu >> Run, type cmd and click Ok button

3. Now download and install everything search tool

4. Run Everything and type the virus exe names one by one ( khatra.exe, gHost.exe, Xplorer.exe ) and delete all the copies found on your computer anywhere.

5. Now Open start menu >> run, type regedit or if registry editing is blocked then unblock registry editing

6. Press ctrl+f and find the registry keys with names khatra,gHost,Xplorer and delete the values you find with these names.

Related Tip: [ Working ] Remove / Delete gphone.exe Virus From Your Computer

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Virus infection is one such big issue for a layman computer user as it any virus infection may result in loss and corruption of important data. Even when a virus is removed form your computer by the antivirus installed on your computer the infections and other damages caused by the virus may still remain.

The infections which remains after virus removal includes invisible folder options in windows explorer, task manager still disabled, registry editing disabled and some autorun.inf files created by the virus in the root drive of each partition. In this article we will share the methods to repair such damages.

Fix:

Virus Effect remover comes to rescue in such a situation as it allows you remove al most all the virus infections caused by different types of viruses, you can do a lot more with this free tool on virus infected computer, to remove the virus also it could be of great help

Some Key Features and Functionalities include the following in virus effect remover

1. You can scan suspicious services

2. Kill virus process with this tool

3. Fix Disabled Task Manager and Registry Editing

4. Launch MSconfig

5. System File Checker

6. Show Suspicious Files

7. Enable the disabled Run prompt

Some process can be added to the blacklist so that they cannot be executed anymore, this setting could be required for the identified virus process

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It is quite common these days when your computer may get infected with a virus or trojan from the portable storage devices like pen drive, mp3 players and other USB storage devices. All these devices which includes USB Flash drive, removable hard disk, Memory card, SD, MicroSD, MMC, USB Camera, USB Audio player, Mobile phone, iPod, Iphone etc.

Naevius USB Antivirus can protect your computer your computer fro all these different viruses which come from these USB storage devices

Fix:

This small antivirus is completely free and easy to use and does not uses much CPU memory. As compared to other anti viruses you don’t need to update this antivirus program

It will automatically detect and delete any anti virus found on your flash drive connected as shown in the image above.

Download Naevius USB Antivirus

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We got an email from a reader having a problem of continuous pop-up windows when connected to the Internet. This kind of problem can be of several kind of malwares, viruses and trojans. We have already covered this issue in one of our articles : Pop Up Ads Appear Automatically

In this article we are going to share one particular method that removes win.worm32.netsky Trojan. This trojan causes continuous pop-ups when an infected computer is connected to the Internet.

Fix:

To remove win.worm32.netsky trojan, follow the steps below:

1. Download SDFix from this link and save it on your computer.

2. Restart your computer and keep pressing F8 key so that you get a Safe Mode Menu on screen when computer starts. On this menu, select the option to boot in safe mode.

3. Double to click Install the file saved in step 1. This will extract some files in a folder.

4. In the folder in which the files have been extracted, double click on the file named “RunThis.bat” . This will launch a command prompt windows, it will ask your confirmation to continue, press Y key to continue running the tool.

5. After the repair is done by the tool, it will prompt to press any key to restart. After restart it will take a while to boot up again.

That is it, it solves your problem of pop-ups.

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We had recently received so many mails form the various user who got infected with MSN virus which spreads in a specific way, the user get a message from one of his/her contact like the one mentioned below.

Hey, is this your picture? =Z http://www.msnimages.net/images/viewimage.php?=abc@hotmail.com

Once you had clicked this type of link, you will get infected and all other msn users in your contact list will get messages like this and this chain will go on.

After some googling we found some tools to remove or delete msn virus completely from your computer. Let discuss about all these free tools to remove msn virus completely.

Fix:

MSNCleaner – It is on such virus removal tool which lets you remove msn virus completely from your computer. Download the MSNCleaner from here

1. Reboot into safe mode ( Press F8 while booting to enter the safe mode and then choose the safe mode)

2. In Safe Mode go to your folder where you downloaded MSNCleaner.zip and run msncleaner.exe 3. Click the analyze button, it will automatically remove all the programs associated with your MSN  messenger

Below is a list of MSN viruses which are removed by MSNcleaner.

• PIC1234(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)(1)(1).exe MSN Virus
• Choke.exe
• MSN Virus Project 1
• Generic2.EXO
• Backdoor.Generic3.SAT
• Remove MSN virus W32.Aplore@mm
• MSN photo virus removal DOWNLOAD fix
• Remove cute.pif
• W32.Kelvir.A MSN Messenger Virus
• Remove MSN Virus IM-Names virus
• Remove MSN Virus Project 1
• Generic2.EXO
• Backdoor.Generic3.SAT
• Remove MSN virus W32.Aplore@mm

4. Reboot your computer, your computer will be free from any types of viruses.

MSN Virus Cleaner – It is another easy to use tool which lets you remove all types of msn viruses and msn worms from your computer

It will also help to remove any other threats for aol or yahoo messenger also. It will automatically erase all the applications which could be a threat for your msn messenger.

3. MSN Virus Remover – This tool removes MSN Viruses, but you will need administrative privileges to completely remove this virus. It removes various different strains of common MSN viruses

It will restore regedit, task manager, run prompt, command prompt, system restore and folder options, can also scan the external portable drives for the autorun file that could infect again.

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It sometimes happens that you see a pop on on your computer while surfing Internet. The Pop up message pretends to protect your computer by installing a fake or rogue antivirus or firewall or any other security software on your computer.

This fake piece of software gets installed on your computer which does nothing but runs a fake scan and tell you that your computer is infected with some deadly viruses and you can only cure your computer by purchasing this fake antivirus or fake security software installed on your computer.

The most common method of removing the fake antivirus trojans is using Malware Antibytes. Remove Fake Antivirus is another free tool in this category which is specially designed to remove or uninstall the fake antivirus on your compute.

Fix:

Remove Fake Antivirus is can be used to remove and delete the following fake softwares including Personal Antivirus, Anti-Virus-1, Spyware Guard 2008, System Guard 2009, Antivirus 2009, System Security, Antivirus 2010, Antivirus Pro 2009, Antivirus 360 and MS Antispyware 2009 from your computer.

See Also: How To Remove Rogue or Fake Anti-Spyware WinDefender 2009

“Remove Fake Antivirus” is quite effective software to uninstall all those fake antivirus on your computer,  it comes with a very easy to use interface.

Download Remove Fake Antivirus

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