Malware infections can cause pop-ups, browser redirects, slow performance, and disabled security tools.
This guide focuses on safe, built-in Windows tools first, followed by additional cleanup steps.
This prevents further infection or data loss.
Hold Shift and click Restart
Choose Troubleshoot > Advanced options > Startup Settings
Select Safe Mode with Networking
Open Windows Security
Select Virus & threat protection
Click Scan options
Run a Full scan
Open your browser extensions page
Remove unknown or suspicious extensions
Reset restores default security settings.
Open Task Manager > Startup
Disable unknown entries
Change passwords
Update Windows fully
Enable real-time protection
Return to the Top 50 Windows Computer Problems hub for additional security issues.