It pays to always install some antivirus and antispyware program to protect your computer.
Nowadays, there are all sorts of malicious programs invented by hackers in an attempt to monitor your activities.
But sometimes, even the strongest antispyware cannot possibly detect the presence of an intrusion.
In this case, you can try removing it manually.
That is why it is such a big deal to know exactly how to remove spyware manually.
However, this is not recommended for beginners because it involves deleting entries in the windows registry.
These can be mistaken as spyware infected when in fact, they are valid, healthy registries.
The steps are broken down into four phases.
In the first phase, you will halt all the processes involving the spyware.
And then in the second phase, you will begin to unregister the DLL files corresponding to each infected entry.
In the third phase, you will start deleting spyware registry cells.
It is very important to know exactly what entries to remove so that you won't do harm to your computer.
1.
The first phase involves stopping all system processes that are associated with spyware.
Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc all at once to open up the Windows Task Manager.
Then select the "Processes" tab.
Choose among running the programs any spyware-related processes and click "End Process" to stop it from running.
2.
This phase will help you unregister all DLL files associated with spyware.
This is a significant step on how to remove spyware manually because you cannot remove registry entries without going through the DLL files first.
Go to the Start menu and then click Run.
If you are using Windows Vista, simply type in "Run" and then press Enter.
Key in the word cmd in the window that pops up and press Enter to bring out the command prompt window.
Once you're in, enter "regsvr32/u spywareDLLfilename.
dl" and hit Enter in the keyboard.
Do this over and over for every spyware-related file until all of them have been unregistered.