If, despite all the security measures yous take, your estimator gets infected by a virus or worm, it is necessary to disinfect your system somehow. While for some viruses the only 100% realiable method of disinfection is restoring your arrangement from backups, for many common infections this is not really necessary and the virus/worm can be removed quite easily.

Removing the infection

The worms often schedule themselves to be run automatically when you start your operating organization; some of them even annals themselves to exist run when any other application is started. Removing such a worm is not as uncomplicated every bit deleting it - when y'all just delete the worm file, your operating system might not be able to start your applications (such equally Explorer) whatever more.

Then, in order to properly remove the worm from your figurer, information technology is ofttimes necessary to brand additional fixes in your system registry, delete the links from your Startup Folder etc. Here the avast! Virus Cleaner comes - it volition detect and remove selected worms from your computer, as well equally fix the registry and startup items to make sure your system volition work correctly later the disinfection.

Many worms - when activated - create boosted working files on your hard deejay. Even though these files alone are harmless, they are useless and they should not be there. When avast! Virus Cleaner detects and removes a known worm from your computer, its working/temporary files are removed as well. The same applies for worm-specific registry entries etc.

List of known worms
avast! Virus Cleaner is currently (in version 1.0.204) able to place and remove the following worm families:

  • Win32:Badtrans [Wrm]
  • Win32:Beagle [Wrm] (aka Bagle), variants A-L, U, West-Z, AA-AH
  • Win32:Equalizer [Wrm] (aka Lovsan), variants A-I
  • Win32:BugBear [Wrm], including B-H variants
  • Win32:Ganda [Wrm]
  • Win32:Klez [Wrm], all variants (including variants of Win32:Elkern)
  • Win32:MiMail [Wrm], variants A, C, East, I-N, Q, S-V
  • Win32:Mydoom [Wrm] (variants A, B, D, F-Due north - including the trojan horse)
  • Win32:Nachi [Wrm] (aka Welchia, variants A-K)
  • Win32:NetSky [Wrm] (aka Moodown, variants A-Z, AA-AB)
  • Win32:Nimda [Wrm]
  • Win32:Opas [Wrm] (aka Opasoft, Opaserv)
  • Win32:Parite (aka Pinfi), variants A-C
  • Win32:Sasser [Wrm] (variants A-F)
  • Win32:Scold [Wrm]
  • Win32:Sircam [Wrm]
  • Win32:Sober [Wrm], variants A-G
  • Win32:Sobig [Wrm], including variants B-F
  • Win32:Swen [Wrm], including UPX-packed variants
  • Win32:Yaha [Wrm] (aka Lentin), all variants
  • Win32:Zafi [Wrm] (variants A-B)