Windows Defender is a antispyware protection software from Microsoft. It also comes with your Vista installation, but why do other people prefer third party antispyware protections? Here are some of the reasons why Microsoft Windows Defender is not good enough to protect your computer against spywares. It’s runs a little slow than it’s counter part [...]

Installing antivirus software is a must software to protect your computer. Although there are many antivirus software all over the web which provides different levels of security protection from viruses, trojans, malwares and spywares I only trust and recommend these three antivirus software for your computer’s protection. These 3 will provide you and your precious [...]

This is another popular article of mine from my previous blog that I brought back. I brought back my some of my previous posts to continuously help computer users recover from a virus attack.

What is FUN.XLS.EXE? This worm gets into your PC through other malwares dropping it. It usually infects removable drives. When this program is executed it drops a copy of itself as ALGSRVS.EXE and MSFUN80.EXE in the Windows system folder. This worm also copies itself as MSIME82.EXE in the Windows folder. This worm drops a copy of itself as FUN.XLS.EXE in all removable drives and It creates a line fo code to the file AUTORUN.INF in the same drives to automatically execute the dropped copies when the drives are accessed.

Follow these steps to remove this virus. Before you perform any cleaning instructions I advised you to first turn off the system restore feature of your operating system for the cleaning to be more effective.

MANUAL REMOVAL INSTRUCTIONS Terminating a Process This procedure terminates the normal process WSCRIPT.EXE, which is used by this malware to execute. Terminating this file also terminates the malware. 1. Open Windows Task Manager. On Windows 98 and ME, press CTRL+ALT+DELETE On Windows NT, 2000, XP, and Server 2003, press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC, then click the Processes tab. [...]