![]() AVG Fake warnings like this one try to scare you into running a file to ‘remove malware’ (read: install malware) or giving up your credit card information to pay for bogus antivirus software. If your antivirus program suddenly stops loading, that’s a huge red flag. If your PC suddenly won’t load utilities that might help you manually remove malware-such as msconfig or regedit-be suspicious. Truly insidious malware will preemptively block you from trying to remove it. That said, you’d be surprised how often a piece of malware gives itself away with a line of strange characters or symbols where the process description should be. ![]() Of course, this is only general guidance there’s nothing to stop a piece of malware from masquerading as a legitimate process by sporting an inoffensive description. The odd-looking “wuauclt” process is fine, for example, because it belongs to Microsoft (it’s actually part of the Windows Update service, as you can tell from the description.) Open the Processes tab, and check for any strange or unknown applications running in the background-especially those with nonsensical names and no recognizable authority listed in the description. But before you decide that a virus must be responsible, take a moment to launch the Windows Task Manager (right-click the Windows taskbar, and select Task Manager from the pop-up menu). If your PC is unusually slow, or if it seems to do a lot of things on its own that you haven’t asked it to do, you have reason to be suspicious.
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