The only time that you can safely say that your computer is safe from attacks, malware, and viruses is when your computer is either off or disconnected from the network. But, since such a computer is practically useless for the tasks of the modern-day workplace, connecting to a local network or to the Internet has become a necessity. Is there a way for your online life to remain safe and healthy? One important way is to use antivirus firewall software.

Antivirus firewall software often comes as a bundle of separate programs packaged into one security suite. Though, there are antivirus programs that can be installed as stand-alone applications. There are also stand-alone firewall programs that can replace the bundled basic Windows Firewall that gets installed with recent or updated versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Antivirus software and firewall software are both protective measures for your computer. They have different ways of protecting your computer. For this reason, it is important that you install both (if buying separate programs for each), or make the job easier by choosing an antivirus firewall software suite.

How does an antivirus program protect your computer? To answer this question adequately, you have to understand how computer viruses work. Computer viruses are software programs or computer codes that display two specific characteristics. The first characteristic of a computer virus is its ability and intent to destroy data on your computer. The second characteristic is its ability to reproduce copies of itself and to infect other computers. If your computer is connected to a network, it is easy for your computer to become infected by other virus-infested computers on the network or to infect other computers if your computer is infected.

First let’s cover the basics.

Definitions

*Virus: a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer …

*Spy-ware is computer software that is installed surreptitiously on a personal computer to intercept or take partial control over the users interaction with the computer, without the users informed consent.

*Junk Files: Over the course of time, your computer accumulates unwanted and unremoved junk files that are no longer necessary. These junk files remain unused by the operating system, but occupy much disk space.

The first step to optimizing your computer is removal of any virus, malware, spyware, and adware infecting your computer. You may notice pop-ups, error messages, difficulty navigating on the internet, a change in home page, a slowdown in computer functions, and other undesirable behaviours. You need programs designed to eliminate these threats. Once the threats have been neutralized and eliminated you will be ready to take the next step in optimizing the performance of your computer. First let’s look at what we are dealing with.

A computer virus is a malicious program that can do irreparable harm to your computer. An anti virus program is necessary to prevent, and or remove these. Ad-ware and spy-ware are also troublesome. They can create unwanted pop ups and also track the way you surf the web. Over time, if not addressed, they can significantly slow down the operation of your computer. An antivirus or anti-spyware program is necessary to remove these from your computer. Some companies offer what is called a ‘suite’ which encompasses all this into one program and usually has preventative protection as well. This makes it easy and uncomplicated for the regular user to combat and prevent these threats.

When you try to login to your Facebook account, you receive numerous requests for changing password. It might be some hacker, trying to infect your computer with Koobface virus. This virus can not only leak your profile details to unwanted individuals but can also crash the memory of your computer.

What a Facebook virus is?

Facebook virus is basically a “Koobface” virus whose primary target is the Facebook users. This virus which targets Facebook users, compose a spam message and then send this message to the infected users’ friends using the messaging system on Facebook. This virus aims at installing Trojan software on the infected user’s computer system and then carrying out its related task for which it is designed. The spam message includes links which redirects to several anonymous websites that in actual are the spoofing and phishing websites.

Just follow these simple and easy to learn steps or instruction for Facebook virus removal from your computer manually:

STEP 1: Terminate the following processes:

fbtre6.exe
mstre6.exe

STEP 2: Delete the below mentioned registry values:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run\”systray” = “c:\windows\mstre6.exe”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run\”systray” = “C:\Windows\fbtre6.exe”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\Navigating

STEP 3: After deleting the registry entries, delete these files:

C:\\Windows\\fbtre6.exe
C:\\Windows\\fmark2.dat

You can download MalwareBytes Anti-Malware tools for Virus removal that automatically detect and remove the Facebook virus from your computer.