Friday, September 30, 2011

How to define - a malicious program or not


Download and install the System Explorer.
Run it and go to the tab Processes.
Select a suspicious process, click on it by right-click, on the shortcut menu select File Check - Virustotal.com as shown below.



File upload to Virustotal.com and opens a browser window with information about this file.






On this page you will see a list of antivirus software, and in front of their verdict on this file.
If the majority of antivirus programs define it as malicious, you can safely delete it.
Do not forget that to remove a trojan or other malicious programs must not only memory but also from the disk where it stores its own copy, and startup.

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