How to identify the virus
Some computer viruses are difficult to identify because they are reside in computer without doing anything. Antivirus programs are identifying the viruses using their virus definition if their definition includes the file is a virus. These types of virus cannot identify until they infect computer.
Can Antivirus Program Identify infected file after the Virus Infection
No, as long as the antivirus program definition includes the threat as virus they cannot identify it as a computer virus.
How Can Virus Identify Manually
Most viruses attack to windows based operating system. Therefore we discuss how to identify virses in windows base operating systems.
There is several ways to identify the viruses once it infected to computer.
Using Task Manager
Load the Task Manager using alt+Ctrl+Del or using right mouse click on taskbar. Then inspet the all process carefully and examine there is any unfamiliar process. Then find that process in Internet to verify that process is not a virus activity.
Please note that searching the Internet there has a possibility to point you a virus developers (the process not to be a virus but it's like a virus) web site. And they never told you that process is a virus !!!!!
Using Third Party Tools
There is a better tool publish by Microsoft call Process explorer which can easily identify the process details.
you can download the tool using following link