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How to deal with malware

The number of Internet users is growing literally every day. Now you can do almost anything on the net — order products, medicines, buy things, watch a movie, and much more. Attackers exploit users' computer illiteracy and infect computers with malware. Many companies specialize in cleaning computers from viruses, but this is a rather expensive procedure, therefore, the ability to get rid of the undesirable consequences of visiting the Internet yourself will not be out of place. The best free antivirus programs, as well as many others, can be downloaded on the website free-software.com.ua without intrusive advertising and other inconveniences. 







First of all, you need to prepare a Live CD. This is a bootable CD-ROM on which the Linux system and any of the antivirus programs are installed. You can buy a turnkey solution, which will include additional options - checking drives for errors, restoring the registry and other utilities. The principle of operation of such disks is quite simple - you need to insert it into the drive, restart the computer, and, using the BIOS, boot from the disk. This allows you to remove programs that start automatically with the operating system and block antiviruses. If there is no disk drive in the computer, you can write the system image to a USB flash drive (“flash drive”). There are quite a lot of such offers on the Internet, they are free and often contain instructions for recording and use. But it’s worth rememberingthat such a drive can no longer be used to store other data - in the process of creating an image, the flash drive will become write-protected, and you can use it for other purposes only after completely erasing the data on the device. 



Some modern computers have Secure Boot protection. This is a utility pre-installed by the manufacturer that protects against malicious programs located on the drive running along with the system. On the one hand, this is a useful feature that protects the computers of those users who do not remove the USB flash drive when rebooting. But it also interferes with restoring the system through a live CD. Each manufacturer has its own algorithm for disabling this utility, so there is no single instruction and you must independently find recommendations on the Internet.



In general, the process of cleaning your computer from malware is quite simple and does not raise questions even for inexperienced users - everything happens automatically. After the work is completed, a message appears, you will need to restart the computer and select the boot from the hard drive in the BIOS. 



Despite the simplicity of these operations, it is still worthwhile to give preference to preventative measures against infection - timely update antivirus programs, periodically run cleaning, do not visit dubious sites and check each flash drive before use.



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