The Very Useful Dr.Web
Computer viruses are a menace. Ever since I’ve had my first computer, I’ve been dealing with virus infections and this was a time before hard disks were even invented. Some of these viruses were benign in nature while some where destructive. In all those years, I’ve tried all sorts of virus protection programs and cleaners but all of them failed at some point. I consider Avira as one of the best antivirus programs I’ve ever used and it’s also free but recently, I encountered one particular virus that was truly destructive and even my antivirus software was unable to clean it.
It all started with a flash drive that I allowed to be inserted into my computer. The moment the flash drive was installed in my system, the virus started to replicate and infect a lot of my files. It spread so fast that my antivirus software was unable to keep up. Needless to say, I had a very sick computer when it was finished. The last time this happened to me, I was forced to reformat and accept the fact that a lot of my files were lost forever. I was about to resort to this when I stumbled upon Dr.Web LiveCD. This software does it all as far as cleaning infected computers is concerned. It is so effective because it loads its own operating system with the CD provided without loading anything from the hard disk. This means that nothing will be running from the drive once Dr.Web starts cleaning. It took a whole night for the software to clean my computer but when I woke up, I had a very clean and virus-free computer.
Dr.Web is a very good product and it is also free. I highly suggest downloading the latest version of its LiveCD and burning it to a CD even if you don’t need it at the moment. Once the time comes and your computer gets infected by a similar virus, you will be glad you burned yourself a copy of the software.
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