{"id":1101,"date":"2013-07-12T10:43:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T05:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/12\/how-to-clean-a-highly-virus-infected-computer-without-expensive-antivirus\/"},"modified":"2021-12-05T12:59:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T12:59:03","slug":"how-to-clean-a-highly-virus-infected-computer-without-expensive-antivirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/12\/how-to-clean-a-highly-virus-infected-computer-without-expensive-antivirus\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Clean a Highly Virus Infected Computer Without Expensive Antivirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It can be extremely frustrating when your PC has thousands of viruses, rogue anti-viruses, spyware, malware, and other threats that infect the performance of your computer. You try to play games on it, they freeze. You try to run a Microsoft Office Program to type an important document for work, it won\u2019t run. Constant annoying pop-up screens come up out of no-where. Blue Screens flash all the time. You just want to end it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unfortunately, many people can\u2019t afford to fork out money of expensive anti-viruses that usually don\u2019t work, this teaches you a way to clean your heavily infected PC, without having to be a heavy computer tech\/expert, and also without having to waste time and money on stuff that doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-82 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/670px-Clean-a-Heavily-Infected-Computer-Without-Expensive-Antivirus-Step-1-thebaranwal.jpg\" alt=\"How to Clean a Highly Virus Infected Computer Without Expensive Antivirus\" width=\"905\" height=\"362\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Step 1:<\/strong>\u00a0First off, look at the computer screen, on the bottom, left corner, there is a Windows logo that is next to your other computer icons, click it<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-83 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Clean-a-Heavily-Infected-Computer-Without-Expensive-Antivirus-Step-2-thebaranwal.jpg\" alt=\"First off, look at the computer screen, on the bottom, left corner, there is a Windows logo that is next to your other computer icons, click it\" width=\"906\" height=\"362\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Step 2:\u00a0<\/strong>Now the start menu should launch, under &#8220;My Computer&#8221; and &#8220;Help and Support&#8221;, there is shut down options such as &#8216;Shut Down&#8217; and Restart and others, select the &#8216;restart&#8217; option. Your computer will restart.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-305 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Clean-a-Heavily-Infected-Computer-Without-Expensive-Antivirus-Step-7-thebaranwal.jpg\" alt=\"How to Clean a Highly Virus Infected Computer Without Expensive Antivirus\" width=\"908\" height=\"363\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Step 3:\u00a0<\/strong>After the manufacturer screen pops up, press the F8 key repeatedly until a screen comes up with a list of boot options. Move your keyboard directional keys up or down until they get to an option called &#8220;Safe Mode&#8221;, select it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Do not select &#8220;Safe Mode w\/ Networking&#8221; or &#8220;Safe Mode w\/ Command Prompt&#8221;. Just &#8220;Safe Mode&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-85 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Clean-a-Heavily-Infected-Computer-Without-Expensive-Antivirus-Step-4-thebaranwal.jpg\" alt=\"How to Clean a Highly Virus Infected Computer Without Expensive Antivirus\" width=\"900\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Step 4:<\/strong>\u00a0Once you log into Safe Mode, go to start&gt;run. In the runbox, type in msconfigand press enter, or click ok.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-304 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Clean-a-Heavily-Infected-Computer-Without-Expensive-Antivirus-Step-5-thebaranwal.jpg\" alt=\"How to Clean a Highly Virus Infected Computer Without Expensive Antivirus\" width=\"889\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 5:<\/strong>\u00a0The Microsoft Configuration program will open. Click the STARTUP tab.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-87 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Clean-a-Heavily-Infected-Computer-Without-Expensive-Antivirus-Step-6-thebaranwal.jpg\" alt=\"How to Clean a Highly Virus Infected Computer Without Expensive Antivirus\" width=\"887\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Step 6:<\/strong>\u00a0There will be a list of programs that will run on startup, uncheck all the virus programs that usually run on startup. Click Apply, then OK.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-305 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Clean-a-Heavily-Infected-Computer-Without-Expensive-Antivirus-Step-7-thebaranwal-1.jpg\" alt=\"How to Clean a Highly Virus Infected Computer Without Expensive Antivirus\" width=\"883\" height=\"353\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Step 7:<\/strong>\u00a0Your computer will have to restart to complete the changes, now, during the restart, after the manufacturer logo shows, type the F8 key, then, this time, select &#8220;Safe Mode with Networking&#8221; and press enter.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-306 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Clean-a-Heavily-Infected-Computer-Without-Expensive-Antivirus-Step-8-thebaranwal.jpg\" alt=\"How to Clean a Highly Virus Infected Computer Without Expensive Antivirus\" width=\"891\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Step 8:<\/strong>\u00a0Once Safe Mode with Networking loads, you should have internet. If you don&#8217;t, go to the right, below corner and click the icon that looks like a graph, click it, and select a router to connect to, or set it up. Once you have internet, click your computer&#8217;s internet browser that you have, and find a free antivirus (such as AVG).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-90 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Clean-a-Heavily-Infected-Computer-Without-Expensive-Antivirus-Step-9-thebaranwal.jpg\" alt=\"How to Clean a Highly Virus Infected Computer Without Expensive Antivirus\" width=\"890\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 9:<\/strong>\u00a0Install your free antivirus. Run it through the installation wizard.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-307 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Clean-a-Heavily-Infected-Computer-Without-Expensive-Antivirus-Step-10-thebaranwal.jpg\" alt=\"How to Clean a Highly Virus Infected Computer Without Expensive Antivirus\" width=\"894\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 10:<\/strong>\u00a0After installation, start a scan, and let the software delete the threats it detects.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be extremely frustrating when your PC has thousands of viruses, rogue anti-viruses, spyware, malware, and other threats that infect the performance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[36,30,24,32,25,35,37],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gain-knowledge","tag-computer","tag-learning","tag-rajesh-baranwal","tag-technology","tag-the-baranwal","tag-trick","tag-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}