My generic advice is to restore everything, the OS and all your data, from a backup taken before the virus infected your computer. Most people do not have good backups however. My second advice is to reinstall everything, the OS and all your data, from scratch, from the original installation media. Restoring your personal data would have to come from backups however. And this will still be a problem if there are no backups of your data. Third best is trying to "clean" the virus from your live system. This can get dicey, because how successful this may be is dependent on what the specific virus (or viruses) may be, your operating system, etc. I am assuming that you are running Windows (that's where most virus infections occur) so I would suggest looking for a Windows-specific security forum and ask what might be the best software for you to use. Asking here - no offense intended to our members - will most likely get responses of "this is what I used once, way back when" which doesn't really tell you anything about what is the best current software to use for your specific situation. There may be some Windows security expert here on our forums, I don't know. Chances are probably slim however. I hope you get it all sorted out. This can sometimes be a real mess.