Remove Warning Pop Up – Your Computer Might Be At Risk

Trouble:

One of our reader asked us about a warning pop up he see on windows startup and he gets very annoyed by that pop which started appearing from the time he upgraded to service pack 2.

As per the reader every time he starts his compute, he see the pop up saying – Your Computer Might be at risk – Antivirus software might not be installed.

This security pop usually appears in windows when you don’t have anti virus installed on yourcomputer or you may have not configured the same in security center in Windows XP with service pack 2.

This could be quite annoying when you are seeing the same pop up again and again even when you have a proper anti virus installed on your computer.

Let’s see how can you disable this security center pop in Windows XP

Fix:

Follow the procedure to remove the security center pop up.

1. Open Control Panel and double click the Security Icon

2. On the left tab you will see resources, find "Change the way Security Center alerts me"

3. Under Alert Settings – Uncheck the Check box which says Virus Protection and click OK

This will suppress the warning at startup. But we recommend to suppress this warning only when you have a reliable antivirus software installed

Thanks: Rohit

How to remove Newfolder.exe virus

Trouble:
One of our readers reported about a virus in his pen drive,his drive is infected with Newfolder.exe virus. He has some very crucial data on the drive, so he cannot format the drive.

What is NewFolder.exe virus?

New Folder.exe virus disables task manager, disables registry editor, disables folder options, and disables run option from start menu. Virus creates exe files like the icon of folders with the same name as the name of the folder, it also consumes more than 50 % of your processor usage so slows down your computer.

Let’s see how we can remove this virus without formatting the drive.

Fix:
In order to remove the newfolder.exe virus you can use two types of tools, again there is a manual procedure also but the tools mentioned below are much better:

Tools to remove Newfolder.exe virus

1. Newfolder virus removal tool by Muhammad Abdullah. Download it from here
2. Newfolder Virus removal tool by Albin. Download it from here

Both of these are executable files, download any one of them and run the file by double-clicking on it, it will clean the virus.
If you find some problem in using any of the above mentioned tools. Please let us know through comments.

Manual Method:

You need delete a file named svichossst.exe where ever you find this file on your system

Remove the following keys from registry

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
“@”=[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
“Yahoo Messengger”=

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
“Shell”=”Explorer.exe “

I hope at least one of the above method given above will help you fix the trouble.