I have a really bad virus on my pc! do virus romoval services wipe out all your information saved on your pc?

Question

i have tons of pictures and songs on my computer i would love to keep help!!

Answer 1

Allot of viruses are not deliberate, their just poor quality programs that don't run properly, malware is designed for deliberate destruction deleting everything it can get hold of

Answer 2

To clean up your PC, give this a try:

Update your anti-virus, remember to only have one anti-virus installed on your PC

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-...  [Free home edition]

Download SuperAntiSpyware

http://www.superantispyware.com/superant...   [Free home edition]

Restart your PC in safe mode, and run a full scan with both.

http://www.pchell.com/support/safemode.s...

While in safe mode, you may also want to have a look at your start up items by using msconfig.

http://www.netsquirrel.com/msconfig/

Be careful with the items you uncheck, you can have a look here to see if they are necessary

http://www.greatis.com/appdata/index.htm...

You should also have a look at your IE Add-ons while in safe mode.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using...

Disable any you do not use.

After you reboot back to normal mode, download and install ccleaner to fix any registry problems and clean up old temp files.

http://www.ccleaner.com   [Free]

Answer 3

Download a free antivirus like AVG, Avira, Avast, BitDefender, PC Tools, etc. No, they don't wipe out everything on your computer.

Answer 4

No, virus removal programs will not delete your saved stuff. However, if one of your pictures or songs is infected by a virus then it may need to be deleted.

Answer 5

You may be having a virus or spyware installed on your PC. Norton, AVG , Avast are free antivirus software. Ad-aware, Ewido are free spyware removers.

You can download free softwares at http://fixit.in/antivirus.html and http://fixit.in/spywareremover.html . You can also run a free registry scan using utilities from http://re7.info