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 [...]

Ever want a quicker way to shutdown your computer without navigating through the start menu, or using a third party shutdown utility Here is a quick trick to do that. Right click the desktop and choose New Shortcut. Copy and paste this script or type it in. %windir%System32shutdown.exe -s -t 0 Choose Next and name [...]

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.