This page is under develolpment.

If you know or suspect that your PC has been infected with any kind of malware, there are some very important precautions and steps that you need to take to minimize any damage to your data and privacy.

How do you come to know if your PC has some sort of virus infection? If you have any virus protection software such as McAffee, or Norton Anti-Virus, Microsoft One-Care, you may get a warning or a report that tells you that your PC is or might be infected. But there are a lot of times when you don't see any very clear signs.

In this particular case, I noticed several things:
- A "Windows - No Disk" error at startup time that didn't seem to affect anything.
- Norton Ghost having problems writing to remote disks
- Windows Update Service getting automatically disabled

This is an article under development, discussing a typical scenario where an personal computer running Windows-XP got infected with a spyware virus. The article will discuss how the malware was detected, what was done to quarantine the PC, how the data was backed up, how the PC was re-imaged and restored. It will also discuss various choices that you might face as you go through the steps to recover your PC from such an attack.

As the article is developed, additional pages will appear in this section.