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class=\"style7\">&#13;<br \/>\n                <font color=\"#FB7014\" size=\"4\" face=\"Tahoma\">Recognizing a PC with Malware<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n            <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"19\">\n<div align=\"justify\"><span class=\"style2\">by: &#13;<br \/>\n                <font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\" color=\"#FB7014\">Ronald Merts<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n            <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<div id=\"article\">\n<td align=\"left\" height=\"12\"><span class=\"style2\">What can you do if you think your computer is affected by spyware or a virus or other malware? (Malware is short for malicious &#13;<\/p>\n<p>software.) First let me assure you that you aren&#8217;t in this alone. There are excellent resources and community sites dedicated to &#13;<\/p>\n<p>helping dig people out of the mess that malware can make. Many of them are free and I&#8217;ll point you to them in this column. I&#8217;ll also &#13;<\/p>\n<p>explain how to recognize if your computer has malware running on it and point you to antivirus programs and anti-spyware tools to &#13;<\/p>\n<p>help you get rid of it. And I&#8217;ll describe how to use recovery options that help get your PC back to working the way it&#8217;s supposed &#13;<\/p>\n<p>to. And, finally, I&#8217;ll talk about &#8220;The Last Resort&#8221;-rebuilding your PC from scratch.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>How to recognize malware&#13;<br \/>Malware is designed to run undetected in the background. So how can you tell if you have undesirable software on your system? The &#13;<\/p>\n<p>signs to look for include:&#13;<br \/>\u0095 Advertising pop-ups that appear every few seconds.&#13;<br \/>\u0095 Extra toolbars in your browser that won&#8217;t go away.&#13;<br \/>\u0095 Browser going to sites you didn&#8217;t tell it to go to.&#13;<br \/>\u0095 Browser settings changing so your home page won&#8217;t open.&#13;<br \/>\u0095 Unexplained system slowdowns.&#13;<br \/>\u0095 Sudden rise in computer crashes.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re experiencing these kinds of problems, it&#8217;s a good idea to treat your PC as if it might be infected by checking it out &#13;<\/p>\n<p>thoroughly. Although there are other reasons why your system might slow down or frequently crash, if you&#8217;re noticing these obvious &#13;<\/p>\n<p>indications of malware, your system has probably been compromised. It&#8217;s time to take defensive action.&#13;<br \/>Update antivirus programs&#13;<br \/>The first step in any attempt to repair or recover a compromised PC is to update your defensive tools. Your antivirus or &#13;<\/p>\n<p>anti-spyware tools need to be updated to the absolute latest versions and the most recent definition files. If you can do this on &#13;<\/p>\n<p>the PC that has the problem, then do it there. If not, you&#8217;ll need to use another PC to download the latest versions and put them on &#13;<\/p>\n<p>a CD or USB drive that you can use to work on the infected PC. I like the USB drive because it&#8217;s highly portable and easy to update &#13;<\/p>\n<p>if you need to. And everything you&#8217;ll need will fit easily on a 128-MB USB drive.&#13;<br \/>Gather your original software CDs and disks as well, including your original Windows CD and the Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) CD. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>You may need them before this is over, and it&#8217;s good to get everything organized and ready before you start. Windows XP SP2 provides &#13;<\/p>\n<p>better protection against viruses, hackers, and worms. If you don&#8217;t have a copy of the Windows XP SP2 CD, you should borrow one from &#13;<\/p>\n<p>a friend, order SP2 on a CD, or download the Network Install and copy it to a CD.&#13;<br \/>If you don&#8217;t already have an antivirus program running on your computer, you&#8217;ll find a number of companies offering antivirus &#13;<\/p>\n<p>software and firewall protection programs, among them:&#13;<br \/>\u0095 Computer Associates (http:\/\/www.ca.com)&#13;<br \/>\u0095 F-secure (http:\/\/www.f-secure.com\/protectyourpc\/)&#13;<br \/>\u0095 McAfee (http:\/\/www.mcafee.com)&#13;<br \/>\u0095 Panda Software (http:\/\/www.pandasoftware.com\/microsoft\/english.htm)&#13;<br \/>\u0095 Symantec (http:\/\/www.symantec.com)&#13;<br \/>\u0095 Trend Micro (http:\/\/www.trendmicro.com)&#13;<br \/>\u0095 Grisoft (free for home users &#8211; http:\/\/www.grisoft.com\/doc\/40\/lng\/us\/tpl\/tpl01)&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Important: Uninstall any antivirus software you are currently using before installing a new product; having two different programs &#13;<\/p>\n<p>might cause problems on your computer.&#13;<br \/>Typically, these software companies make special offers of free trial versions of their antivirus and firewall packages, which &#13;<\/p>\n<p>should be enough to get you through this process. But to help avoid being back in this mess again, you&#8217;ll want to choose one of them &#13;<\/p>\n<p>and get a full subscription to it so you stay up to date.&#13;<br \/>If you still have good working Internet connectivity, you can also use one of the excellent, free, online virus scanners. My &#13;<\/p>\n<p>favorite and one of the best is Panda Software&#8217;s Panda Free Online Scanner &#13;<\/p>\n<p>(http:\/\/www.pandasoftware.com\/activescan\/com\/activescan_principal.htm).&#13;<br \/>One of the most annoying and difficult to remove pieces of unwanted software is Cool Web Search and its variants. To remove this, &#13;<\/p>\n<p>you&#8217;re best bet is CWShredder, a dedicated program that just goes after this.&#13;<br \/>You&#8217;ll also need a good anti-spyware product that can help you with the detection and removal of spyware or other malware. Here, one &#13;<\/p>\n<p>is good and two or more are sometimes better. They don&#8217;t interfere with each other, generally, and they each seem to have slightly &#13;<\/p>\n<p>different strengths. The two I use regularly and recommend are Spybot search &amp; destroy &#13;<\/p>\n<p>(http:\/\/www.safer-networking.org\/microsoft.en.html) and Computer Associates PestPatrol 5. There is new anti-spyware software from &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft, which is in beta testing now and holds some promise as well. (Beta software is pre-release software that is distributed &#13;<\/p>\n<p>for feedback and testing purposes.) The Microsoft product is a security technology that helps you detect and remove known spyware &#13;<\/p>\n<p>from your PC. It also helps prevent spyware from getting on your computer in the first place. I&#8217;ve been using it and really like the &#13;<\/p>\n<p>way it works, but because it&#8217;s a beta version, it won&#8217;t be the right choice for everyone until the final release. For one thing, &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft doesn&#8217;t provide technical support for beta releases. Although formal support is not offered for this beta, you can go to &#13;<\/p>\n<p>the newsgroups to help get your questions answered.&#13;<br \/>Finally, it&#8217;s a good idea to have a couple of other programs available. LSPFix and WinSock XP Fix can help restore your Internet &#13;<\/p>\n<p>connection if the cleanup process messes that up.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Back up critical files&#13;<br \/>If you can, now would be a really good time to back up critical files you&#8217;d hate to lose. Don&#8217;t try to back up programs or the &#13;<\/p>\n<p>operating system-there&#8217;s no point since they may be compromised and can be replaced. But those pictures of your daughter&#8217;s wedding, &#13;<\/p>\n<p>your r\u00e9sum\u00e9, and your doctoral thesis-those are irreplaceable. Please, copy them somewhere safe, since anything you do to remove &#13;<\/p>\n<p>this kind of malicious software is serious and could leave your PC in a state where it might be difficult to recover or save your &#13;<\/p>\n<p>critical files.&#13;<br \/>Where or what you copy them to doesn&#8217;t really much matter. A CD or DVD if you&#8217;ve got the hardware and software to do that, or a Zip &#13;<\/p>\n<p>disk, or just plain old floppy disks will work. But whatever medium you use, having a backup will give you the confidence to attack &#13;<\/p>\n<p>this malicious software without fear of losing something critical. Ed Bott&#8217;s Windows XP Backup Made Easy &#13;<\/p>\n<p>(http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsxp\/using\/setup\/learnmore\/bott_03july14.mspx) explains how to let Windows XP do most of the backup &#13;<\/p>\n<p>work.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Scan and remove&#13;<br \/>Once you have your defensive programs ready, located your original CDs and DVDs, and made a backup of your critical data files, it&#8217;s &#13;<\/p>\n<p>time to start figuring out exactly what you have on your system that shouldn&#8217;t be there. But before you start, disable System &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Restore. The last thing you&#8217;d want to do is restore to this point anyway, and this will prevent versions of the noxious software &#13;<\/p>\n<p>from being saved in the restore point.&#13;<br \/>To disable System Restore&#13;<br \/>1. Click Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.&#13;<br \/>2. On the System Restore tab, select the Turn off System Restore box, and click OK.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The first step should be to try the obvious. Use Add\/Remove Programs in Control Panel for programs that shouldn&#8217;t be there and try &#13;<\/p>\n<p>to uninstall them first. Some of the annoying adware programs will actually uninstall and stay uninstalled so you might as well get &#13;<\/p>\n<p>rid of them first.&#13;<br \/>Next I scan for conventional viruses. Use the antivirus software that you downloaded and updated or one of the online scanners if &#13;<\/p>\n<p>you&#8217;re still online. Deal with anything it finds, either by deleting or cleaning as appropriate. Microsoft offers a Malicious &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Software Removal Tool (http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security\/malwareremove\/default.mspx) that is updated on the first Tuesday of each &#13;<\/p>\n<p>month. This tool checks computers running Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 for infections by specific, prevalent &#13;<\/p>\n<p>malicious software-including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom-and helps remove any infection found. When you&#8217;re done, it&#8217;s time to &#13;<\/p>\n<p>disconnect from the Internet. Unplug the network connection or disconnect the modem.&#13;<br \/>Next, run CWShredder. Although it only deals with a single (but pervasive) problem, many of the Cool Web Search variants can prevent &#13;<\/p>\n<p>the other anti-spyware programs from doing their job correctly, so it&#8217;s best to go after this one first.&#13;<br \/>Now it&#8217;s time to run the anti-spyware scanners. It doesn&#8217;t really matter what order you run them in, but be prepared for a fairly &#13;<\/p>\n<p>lengthy list of things to deal with. Initially, I&#8217;d ignore any that are described as cookies-they&#8217;re low on our list of concerns for &#13;<\/p>\n<p>now. But everything that looks like a program or that they report as a critical issue should be quarantined or deleted.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Running in safe mode&#13;<br \/>One recommendation that some experts make is to run your antivirus and anti-spyware scans and cleanup in safe mode. Some problems &#13;<\/p>\n<p>that can hide from these programs in normal user mode are exposed in safe mode. Other experts disagree and suggest that there is &#13;<\/p>\n<p>little difference. I&#8217;m of the school that thinks it can&#8217;t hurt, so I suggest you try running your scans first from a normal boot, &#13;<\/p>\n<p>but when you&#8217;ve done all you can from there, start in safe mode and try running the scans again.&#13;<br \/>To start in safe mode&#13;<br \/>1. Click Start, click Shut Down, click Restart from the list, and then click OK.&#13;<br \/>2. While your computer is starting, press the F8 key until the Windows Advanced Options Menu appears.&#13;<br \/>3. Select Safe Mode and press ENTER as needed.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>For more on safe mode and the options available in the Windows Advanced Options Menu, see a Description of the Safe Mode Boot &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Options in Windows XP at http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315222.&#13;<br \/>Finally, when you&#8217;re done fixing everything and you think you&#8217;ve got it all, I think it&#8217;s wise to install or reinstall Windows XP &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Service Pack 2. Now turn on Windows Firewall, turn on System Restore, and you can connect your PC back to the Internet. Before you &#13;<\/p>\n<p>do anything else, go to the Windows Update site (http:\/\/update.microsoft.com) and download all of the latest security fixes. Then, &#13;<\/p>\n<p>turn on Automatic Updates to make sure you stay up to date.&#13;<br \/>Getting help&#13;<br \/>Removing undesirable software can be a daunting task. But as I said in the beginning, you&#8217;re not in this alone. There are a wealth &#13;<\/p>\n<p>of resources available to you at every stage of the process. I can&#8217;t begin to list them all, but some that I know about are the &#13;<\/p>\n<p>following:&#13;<br \/>\u0095 Microsoft Security Help and Support-the support is free for security problems and getting help removing malware is definitely a &#13;<\/p>\n<p>security problem: Located at http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/default.aspx\/gp\/securityhome.&#13;<br \/>\u0095 Microsoft Security Home Users Newsgroup-good place to start, with a wealth of users and MVPs responding to your queries 24 hours a &#13;<\/p>\n<p>day: Located at &#13;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/communities\/newsgroups\/en-us\/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.security.homeusers&amp;cat=en_us_d06efcb7-0e61-00&#13;<\/p>\n<p>ed-6e0f-a86481b6aa20&amp;lang=en&amp;cr=us.&#13;<br \/>\u0095 Broadband Reports Online Security Community Forum-an excellent resource for really persistent and difficult problems, with help &#13;<\/p>\n<p>from Microsoft MVPs and other users: Located at http:\/\/www.broadbandreports.com\/forum\/security.&#13;<br \/>\u0095 SpywareInfo Forums-excellent help and fast responses: Located at http:\/\/forums.spywareinfo.com\/.&#13;<br \/>\u0095 AumHa Forums-a great resource for a wide variety of Windows problems, run and staffed by Microsoft MVPs: Located at &#13;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/forum.aumha.org\/.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The last resort&#13;<br \/>Finally, I want to talk about the last resort, which is performing a clean installation of Windows XP. 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