Great Antivirus and Tools for Malware

As a technology support person, I am often faced with infected computers, or computers that are plagued by popups and annoying ads. Most of the time, these viruses and malware enter your computer through programs and downloads that aren't dangerous to begin with. What those little programs do fetch those malware programs and allow them be saved and installed on your computer. Most often your viruses or popups return is because those hidden files are still around and is not detected by your Antivirus or cleaning program.

I've tried many tools and cleaning methods throughout the years, and nothing cleans better than starting with a manual delete of malicious files. Unfortunately, it does take someone with a good few years of technical experience to do this safely without removing critical system files, and rendering your computer useless.

Below are some great tools for you to start cleaning your system of these Virus and Malware. These are tools that I use myself and trust.

Kaspersky Antivirus - www.kaspersky.com

Not only a great Antivirus product, but this program is able to detect majority of Malwares as well. I recommend this over McAfee, Norton, Symantec, Avast, AVG and products alike.

ComboFix - www.combofix.org

A great free tool that will help clean your computer of those annoying Malware bugs that plaster you with ads. Best ran in safemode. This tool will search out all the possible infection areas where those nasty Malware will hide and prevent them from coming back.

With a combination of the two above tools. It will aid you in cleaning your infected computer. 99% effective if done correctly :)