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<p>New page: Help!! My computer has a virus, what do I do? &#039;&#039;DON&#039;T PANIC!&#039;&#039; If you think your computer may have a virus, there are a few things you can do. First of all, do NOT click on any &quot;pop-up...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Help!! My computer has a virus, what do I do?<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;DON&#039;T PANIC!&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> If you think your computer may have a virus, there are a few things you can do. First of all, do NOT click on any &quot;pop-up&quot; windows which tell you you have a virus! Those are usually {{wiki|phishing}} scams and will try to steal money from you.<br /> <br /> If you don&#039;t HAVE to have the internet right now, unplug your computer from the &#039;net. Shut down your network connection.<br /> <br /> The first thing to do is to stop the offending malware program(s). If you can, press Ctrl+Alt+Del (on Windows XP) to bring up the &#039;Windows Security&#039; dialog, and click on the &#039;Task manager&#039; button. IF that does not work, try Ctrl+ESC and then &quot;Run...&quot; and type in &quot;taskmgr&quot;. IF that ALSO doesn&#039;t work, download (you obviously need the internet) and run [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx Process Explorer] from SysInternals.<br /> <br /> Look in the list of running applications <br /> <br /> * Free anti-virus [http://downloads.sourceforge.net/clamwin/clamwin-0.93.1-setup.exe ClamAV 0.93.1] (more recent versions may exist)</div>

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