Almost all of us get frustrated with our anti virus program installed on our computer as it my not be able to protect us from all the type of infections. Our anti virus many times does not detect and protect us against viruses in pen drive, spyware getting installed on our computer from internet and other security risks.

Norton Security Scan and Clean is a free program to detect those viruses and other infections which are not detected or repaired by your anti virus program. This tool is not a replacement to your existing anti virus installed but could strengthen the existing security on your computer.

Fix:

Norton Security Scan and Clean automatically updated when your computer is connected to internet. All the updates for Norton Security Scan and Clean is free for personal use

On the first time when you start the scan it will download all the updates required to detect and repair any virus infections found on your computer. In all this is the best program to proof check you computer for any kind of virus or trojan infections and repair them.

Download Norton Security Scan and Clean

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We recently received a comment from a reader saying Lin Mar

How can I restore Internet Explorer as title of my browser.  SoWar Browser is displayed instead of Internet Explorer.  I hope you can help.  Thank you.
BTW, my pc was infected with sowar.vbs.

Sowar.vbs is another autorun.inf types virus which infect from pen drives and performs the following actions on the infected computer

Sowar.vbs virus copies the following files in the system root directory of windows ( i.e C: drive )

• Cool USEP Scandal.vbs
• sowar.vbs
• Windows\SysRes.vbs

It also creates an autorun.inf file in the root directory whenever the removable pen drive infected with sowar.vbs virus, more over it creates a startup entry in windows registry to run SysRes.vbs on startup and last but no the least it modifies the title text of your internet explorer SoWar Browser.

Let’s see how can you remove sowar.vbs virus from your computer and fix the internet explorer title bar.

Fix: 

You will need to delete all the files which are created by the virus and copied to your computer.

Follow the procedure below to remove the sowar.vbs virus from your computer.

Removing SoWar.vbs virus

1. Open Start Menu >> Run, type cmd and press Enter key

2. Type Cd\ and press Enter

3. Type attrib –s –h –r –a autorun.inf and press Enter

4. Type del autorun.inf and press Enter

5. Repeat the above command from 3 and 4 for all drive on your computer

6. Now Search for Sowar.vbs , Cool USEP Scandal.vbs and SysRes.vbs, and delete all these files wherever they are found on your system

Note: In order to delete these files you may need to apply the following commands

7. Now in the command prompt, type in your primary drive location usually C: drive

Type: attrib sowar.vbs.* -s -h -r -a Press Enter
Type: del sowar.vbs Press Enter 

Repeat the above command on your flash/pen drive also, exit command prompt and disable autorun using this post and reboot your computer.

Fixing the Internet Explorer Title Bar

There is free script which will let you fix the internet explorer title, download the script here, If you want to know the complete procedure check out the complete post on how to change the internet explorer title bar text.

We hope this will help you fix the trouble, if it does not please let us know through comments at the end of this post.

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