What's a worm on my PC?

Question

For the average pc owner, what troubles could be reasonably expected? What steps can I take to rid the worm?

Answer 1

Check out this site, it will lead you to your appropriate response but you have to know what virus your PC has.

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32rbotpc.html

Answer 2

"A destructive program that replicates itself throughout a single computer or across a network, both wired and wireless. It can do damage by sheer reproduction, consuming internal disk and memory resources within a single computer or by exhausting network bandwidth. It can also deposit a Trojan that turns a computer into a zombie for spam and other malicious purposes. Very often, the terms "worm" and "virus" are used synonymously; however, worm implies an automatic method for reproducing itself in other computers. See virus, logic bomb, smartphone virus, Worm.ExploreZip virus and Morris worm."
http://www.answers.com/topic/worm

How To: Remove a worm virus from your computer
http://www.tech-pro.net/howto_002.html

Answer 3

Your computer will slow to a crawl. That is probably just a start.
You should be running with all of these protectors:
Virus Scan - you can get AVG and Avast free
Spyware proctection - Spybot Search and Destroy - free download Ewido - available for trial and reduced functionality for free.
Fire Wall - Zone Alarm is one the free ones
Download all of these - turn off System Restore - boot into safe mode - run all the scans.

Answer 4

The worm is a type of virus.
By Scaning your PC with Antivirus will fix the problem.
And always have update of your Antivirus.

Answer 5

I think Avira is the best antivirus of all time, it guarantes you a full protection of your pc. You can download it for free here http://bitly.com/1r2gcAY

Answer 6

When using internet pop-up site and ads will attack your system, computer hang-up and more pop-up porn site.... Just install anti-virus.