1. Skype-Virus with a virus scanner, disable/remove
The Skype Virus you can catch by pushing on infected websites or contacts sent get. The second way, the most common is, as he sends are already infected Skype users to automatically messages to all the contacts. A Text appears, such as, for example, "Hello, tell me honestly, are these your photos?" and including a Link to the supposed image. Click on it, is also infected your Computer.
- Download "Malwarebytes Anti-Malware" or other Anti-virus program and run a system scan.
- Usually the programs should find the Virus and remove it. The malicious program can update itself, however, and thus hide. Therefore, you need to be may still be on its own.
Skype Virus using command prompt, remove
Shut down your Computer and restart It in safe mode. To do this, press the Start button "F8".
- Go to the command prompt. You do this by pressing the buttons "Win" and "R" at the same time. Enter it in the "Open:" type the command "cmd".
- Now enter "cd c:\users\username\appdata\roaming". "Username" replaced by your user name (for example, "Alex").
- Now type "del *.exe" a. As a result, the Virus is removed from the directory.
- Now you need to disable the programs that has registered the Skype Virus may be in the system start-up. How to do this, read here for Windows 7 and here for Windows 8.
Remove Skype Virus
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