(November 14, 2012 at 3:14 pm)Annik Wrote: How should one respond to a virus on their computer?It depends on the virus and how your computer is set up.
If you have anti-virus software installed and it has detected the virus, it should have methods to either quarantine it or remove it completely. If not, I'd suggest installing better anti-virus software.
If you don't have anti-virus software installed, and the virus is preventing you from installing it (common with some viruses), then you will most likely have to connect your hard drive to another computer as an external disk and have the other computer to a scan to find the virus.
If the virus is causing a load of weird stuff to happen, or your system is loading slowly, turn the computer off immediately and do the same thing (scan the hard drive by using another computer). The less time the virus has to mess with your system, the better. As long as your OS isn't booted up, the virus shouldn't be able to do any damage, so connecting the hard drive to another computer as a secondary disk (not the main disk) will not put that computer at risk.
