Is your PC troubled by malware? Obvious symptoms include: popups, browser start page self-changing, desktop wallpaper self-changing, frequent popups of obvious fraudulent antivirus software (often with a nag encouraging you to buy the program in order to remove the threats). Non-obvious symptoms can be general sluggishness, increased time required to boot/sleep/hibernate/wake, and certain features suddenly unavailable or intermittently available. Sometimes viruses reside as resident device drivers, and, if written poorly enough, can cause bluescreening.


    Depending on the severity of the infection, cleaning the system to a safe state should be possible. If it is not possible, data must be backed up and the system reloaded from scratch. Sometimes a reload process takes less time than would be needed to try all the different methods to remove an especially stubborn piece of malware. Contact us today if you need assistance with sick PC.