Recently, users around the world are increasingly confronted with viruses on the Internet, even if they simply view the news or open their own inbox.
What to do if the virus blocked the computer?
As a rule, those who have already encountered such a nuisance say that in such cases, neither rebooting, nor turning it off / on again will help, and the computer will not work.
A message appears on the screen: “Virus! Windows is blocked! " After that, it is often proposed to send SMS to one of the proposed numbers. Of course, you should not trust this kind of “caring assistants”, you only spend money, time and nerves.
If your computer is blocked by a virus, there are two different ways you can do it. - Firstly, consult a specialist, however, this option implies additional cash costs. Secondly, you can try to correct the situation on your own. The second method sounds intimidating for the layman, but this is only at first glance.
When the virus blocked the computer at work, the entire unlocking process took me no more than an hour, I just need to act boldly, decisively and armed with instructions and tips.
I would recommend you do the following:
- On a blank disc, write the special DrWeb Curelt program. Of course, it will be impossible to do this with a computer infected with a virus. Take advantage of any other office work machine, or the computer of one of your friends, at worst visit the nearest Internet cafe.
- Upon returning, turn on your woe-computer. - Here it is important not to miss the moment: before the device starts to boot, you need to manage to press the F8 key several times.
- A special window is displayed in which you can choose how to boot the computer.
- We need the system to boot only using the basic services and drivers, and any add-ons in this case are completely unnecessary. So, we prefer the safe boot mode.
- The system is loading.
- After that, insert the previously recorded disc into the drive, run a special utility designed specifically for checking the computer.
- Please note that at the corners of the screen there will be a record that your machine is in a state of increased (enhanced) protection.
- Verification begins.
- And although we already knew for certain that it was the virus that blocked the computer, anyway, you must agree, it’s nice that our assumption is confirmed.
- The device is cured.
Among other things, I would like to advise you to perform a full scan scan, since it is likely that the virus could register in any of the folders, not even one, but several.
For example, there were cases when, in a fairly short time, two or three viruses managed to register in more than 3,000 folders and files.
Very often, along with malware, some other problems arise. As a rule, the computer can “slow down” at boot. But I would like to warn you if you decide to use the special Cleaner program to clean your device from unnecessary documents, be careful when deleting files containing the dll extension. They must not be removed in any case. Otherwise, it will fail to boot the computer later even in safe mode and you will have to reinstall the operating system.
So to summarize. - If the virus blocked the computer, you should not even try to send SMS to the specified phone number. Such a procedure will not lead to anything. Call the wizard, and even better, solve the problem yourself. It seems to me that you are quite capable of it, especially since I tried to provide a very detailed step-by-step instruction for performing the actions. Good luck