The day my computer got infected!

I seem to always either be worried about computer security problems or have some sort of computer security problems. I am not sure what actually happened as it was very frightening and all I wanted to do was get it off my computer immediately. Basically what happened was my internet connection just became more and more faulty as time progressed. Eventually I called in a friend of mine who is excellent in I.T to help me. He told me that my internet connection was being used by other people every time that I connected to the internet.

There were many other strange things which were taking place that really started freaking me out. The worst thing that happened was every time I tried to download any thing computer security related; my computer would immediately block the site. This means that literally any antivirus site or anything related to a computer security product of any kind, just wouldn’t work. It was the scariest thing ever to see. I had to actually get a cd with some stuff on and put that on my computer.

The solution to my problem was a long one, after debating with many people and trying to understand the best way to proceed from the situation. I finally got a cd which people put lots of programs on for me, I tried them all. I changed my antivirus and I changed some of my windows xp system settings for my Windows updates to automatically update itself. Some of my files were corrupt from whatever it was that was on my system so I had to re install parts of Windows. It was all one big mission but what I learnt from this is that it really is important to have a decent antivirus which is up to date running on your system.Oh yes and what really helped me was I got myself an awesome antispyware removal tool which does a system scan of my computer, detects any threats which I have running on it and gives me the option of having it automatically deleted for me. I did that and it worked like a charm! The combination of all those things seemed to have saved my computer. This is a true story and I really don’t wish these computer problems upon my worst enemy.