Suspect Getting Virus?
Being a IT field Engineer for few year, my experience will told me how to stop virus in a immediate way. Not with Antivirus actually. Due to strong virus, some time your AntiVirus cant able to open at all…
History
Back to my JUNE post about Your PC Performance, that related to my company Server which having MXDOMAINMGR issue, I have mention on how to use the TASK MANAGER for PC trobleshooting.
TASK MANAGER
I always will check on TASK MANAGER process tab when my PC lack or a bit hang.
On the process tab, there are a lot of process that currently running on our PC, some are system file, if we click on the END Process, it may cause our PC shut down or run abnormally.
Virus name normally will appear here, but did you know which is Virus? same to me, I also don’t know, some time just depend on luck and END Process those with weired name.
Solution to Detect Unknown Process
I found this website from Kucau‘s blog, this website is a nice tools for me. I may check what is the file for before i END process it.
Just take any file name you suspect and type it in WhatIsThatFile ‘s website, you will know what is the file use for.
Mostly useful file will be appear with description. Once you found a file without description, it may be VIRUS
Lets take SVCHOST.EXE as example, see what i get, it will show some other related or almost similar name file that may be virus…
I just wonder how to inspect which process is important for the system. ctfmon.exe kinda fishy
Usually trojan’s will disguise itself as a windows system file……. like iCalvyn mentioned, having a look at the task manager and the memory usage, you might figure out if you have a worm/trojan/virus infection…
however, if you cannot open Task Manager, then you are confirmed infected.
Thanks so much! I always depending on the antivirus…
I dunno can check by this way~!
thanks for the link dude!
really having a hard time on figuring wat those task are especially when u suspect ur pc is runnin slow and weird…
wow. thanks for the tips. uni students’ laptops are extremely vulnerable to virus infections.. glad to find out the ways to detect it without relying so much on antivirus programs.
kljs > yes, some time strongt virus will stop you CTRL ALT DEL too, have to use another solution when facing this
if you can’t ctrl alt del, then you have probably 2 options. Hopefully, the antivirus program that you are using can remove it, if not, then you have to reformat.
Well, not necessarily need to format…. but if you have those backup cd where you can just restore your exact backup image in less than 10 minutes…then just use that…easier than u waste time to find out what is wrong. =p
Time is essential here ya know… =p
Time is money… LOL
kljs > 3rd Solution, prepare variety brand of antivirus… but risk is … will screw up your PC speed
wow…. i got this few day ago…. aih hh so bad…
this was nice tips. I check my PC right the way and found few unknow process and direct end it, feel like PC a bit fast de
thanks for the useful information
the last image is not showing up. just thought id let you know.