Virus ?

[taff33]

Had An e-mail sent to me by some one I know,it said "Alan click on this and watch video",got in touch with the sender and he said he had a virus attack.My PC seems OK,how can I check it out to be sure?,any help please.

[kellbell]

Run a virus check ? if you have no anti virus then go to the ESET website and run their on line checker. Is your computer playing up ? These viruses tend to send themselves to everyone in your mail address book so check with your friends to see if they have received a similar message.

[WilliaminBKK]

You can download Windows Defender for free and run a scan, works great for me. I cancelled Norton 2 years ago and only use Defender, knock on wood not a single issue.

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17

[worgeordie]

Hi taff33 , download and scan with Hitman Pro its free and

has 5 scanning engines, its sure to find virus if you have

one

regards Worgeordie

[transam]

Also SuperantiSpyware is free and found stuff others missed. Malwarebytes is a good free malware tool.

[Lannig]

OK, just to add up to the noise I'd recommend Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool. It's free and cleans up whatever it finds. It uses the same engine as their paid product which is IMHO the best one on the market (I'm sure someone will disagree ).

This tool has managed to clean up deeply infected boxes with TDSS-style rootkits that no other tool could manage. Especially not the anti-spyware kind, which don't do rootkits AFAIK.