Now what measures or steps to be taken when you had a severe virus attack on your laptop. As Laptop being a portable one it can be easily prone to Virus attacks. So here are some of the lists step by step tips which you must follow in order to avoid or get rid of such things.

1. First of all judge the level of virus attack. If it's a minor attack than the antivirus will have it detected. The symptoms of minor virus attacks are like having some changing in your system files or some unusual things happening but not quite serious one. Another system is of serious crashes like computer freezes up or automatic restart etc. These are serious symptoms and must be cared about.

2. Now go for a system restart and start the laptop in a Safe mode. Starting Laptop in a Safe Mode make it runs only OS components banning all third party software to be run.

3. Go for a proper update of the Antivirus which you have installed on your Laptop. Always have it done before scanning the system for the Virus. Many Antivirus Have automatic updates on and someone have the option of manually performing the updates.

4. Now start to scan the Laptop with this updated Antivirus so as to have the complete scan of your system files as well as whole of your HDD.

5. If this also does not work then go for online scan for the virus in the safe mode. Many of the Antivirus portals like Bitdefender, Kaspersky etc support this online scan and make you system Virus free.

Follow above steps step by step in order to protect your Laptop free from any severe Virus attack. As if your Laptop comes under any of these attack then it might lead to great damage to it.