How Do I Remove Malware from Windows?

✴️ Malware on your machine and nothing seems to remove it? I'll walk you through the steps to clean an infected computer, from backups and full scans to the one method guaranteed to work. Plus, how to avoid the whole mess next time.

✴️ Removing malware safely
- Back up the infected machine for an additional safety net and data recovery later.
- Restore from backups taken prior to the infection if you can.
- Update your security software database and run full scans of your disks.
- Try additional anti-malware tools.
- Look for removal instructions specific to the malware you have, if possible.
- If unsuccessful, give up: back up, reformat, and reinstall everything from scratch.
- Prevention (and preparation in the form of a backup) is by far the easiest solution.

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Chapters
0:00 How Do I Remove Malware from Windows?
0:44 A word about prevention
1:18 Back up
1:56 Restore a prior backup
2:43 Update your anti-malware database
3:31 Perform a full scan
4:22 Try another anti-malware tool
5:26 Research specific removal instructions
6:41 Surrender, reformat, and reinstall

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