I think I have a virus ?

[MetalancA]

My computer recently has been acting irratically, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out what was wrong. So I'm asking you guy for help, and if I still can't get it to work then I'll reinstall vista (:S)

Here's what's wrong:

Programs would stop responding at random intervals, making me perform a hard shutdown.

"My documents" takes FOREVER to load (2-5 minutes); and if I try clicking a document before it completely loads it stops responding.

My documents isn't the only thing that's slow; when I right click on my connections icon and click "connect to a network", it takes a very long time to load the connections box.

I tried disabling startup programs and the problem persists.

I really hope I don't have to reinstall windows :( Any ideas?

[Ouivile]

reinstallin would prbbly be best...do u have any antivirus software? id recommend avg free or pro.

note: i personally dont have any virus protection. its not nessessary if you know what your doing. first of all u need a good firewall, windows firewall isnt it. i use kerio sunbelt firewall from 2007. it lets me control EVERYTHING. even program execution and injection.

so nyway, you can try to using restore points or use antivirus software. i would really recommend reinstalling windows.

[JPHamlett]

use a resotr point

kinda off topic but it is possible for a virus to make a resotre point wiht the virus in it and can a virus connect to other commputer via wireless motom


im not making a virus m just curious

[Lance]

J_Pizzle, a virus can do anything im pretty sure. it all depends on what you program it to do and how good of a scripter you are :P

and ive never experianced a virus transfering itself wirelessly, but i usto have a few computers hooked up in my house all on LAN together, and if one got a virus... they all would >.< it was annoying having to clean one out, just realizing that it moved onto another computer and hide there

[sapetto]

Try scanning your computer with Kaspersky Online Scanner (http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner) its maybe one of the best antivirus programs and the scan is free, just wait to scan your PC

[Wizzup?]

Defragging may also help. NTFS gets dirty fast.

[Boreas]

This is pretty old school, but will give a pretty good idea if you have a virus: Run HijackThis and post a log here.

[Ouivile]

Defragging may also help. NTFS gets dirty fast.

defrag online indexs files not removes them? just dumps acoording to use?

[Wizzup?]

defrag online indexs files not removes them? just dumps acoording to use?

I was talking about speed, he said My Documents takes forever to load. :)

[Ouivile]

ohhhhhhh......... i gotcha..... im tellin yall right now...from personal expericnce...ur gonna take 4 times more time tryin to solve it than reinstallin windows....and then ur gonna reinstall windows anyway ....

[Boreas]

It does end up that way a good portion of the time, but 10 mins of diagnostics before jumping to last resort couldn't hurt.

[Ouivile]

thats true, he might as well find out what he did. did you download anything recently Metal? warez or maybe exes or rars? something illegal?

if your ever unsure of a file you download [like if its not from microsoft or apple or some other trusted company] i would recommend using jottie scan on it. it's a free online scan for 1 file (since most things come zipped these days). jottie can be found here:

http://virusscan.jotti.org/en

and as you can see you can adjust the language accordingly by changing last 2 letters to whatever..

[MetalancA]

Thanks for all of your help guys. I reinstalled windows, updated the drivers, got AVG and things seem to be fine now :)

[Cstrike]

My computer recently has been acting irratically, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out what was wrong. So I'm asking you guy for help, and if I still can't get it to work then I'll reinstall vista (:S)

Here's what's wrong:

Programs would stop responding at random intervals, making me perform a hard shutdown.

"My documents" takes FOREVER to load (2-5 minutes); and if I try clicking a document before it completely loads it stops responding.

My documents isn't the only thing that's slow; when I right click on my connections icon and click "connect to a network", it takes a very long time to load the connections box.

I tried disabling startup programs and the problem persists.

I really hope I don't have to reinstall windows :( Any ideas?




Okay, funny story, I went through the exact same thing 4 days ago. EXACT same. I have a laptop, and I too am using vista. Here's what went down for me:

Clicking on "My computer"/"My documents" would take forever to load, it took me 3 min to open up firefox; playing doom was ever so choppy.

So I then proceeded to run every possible clean up program. I had spy bot going, Avg, Hijack this, and even a defragment on my computer. (I only had 42 gb free of disk pace out of 225gb. I deleted norton, because it just sat there and did nothing took up valuable space + ram, and it never detected a single virus. AVG detected 9.

So after a long clean up, and deleting junk I did not need/ use, and stuff I never knew I had to begin with, my computer still ran a tad choppy. I was baffled. I soon realized another factor I was forgetting. My laptop was very hot, and I keep it in my room which has almost no air flow. So that was another problem. After a trip to my local wal-mart I got a cooling fan for my laptop and now it runs like it was bran new.


In a summary for you. Try the following before re installing vista:

- delete files & folders on your computer you do not use anymore.
- defrag, virus scan and spybot scan your entire computer for anything that could be sucking up bandwidth and running applications on your computer that could/ will slow down your computer
- check and see how hot your computer gets; this is also a factor when processing applications. If it is: look into 3rd party cooling devices.

If all of that fails, then formatting/ re-set dates, would be your best option.

Hope that helps :)

[Ouivile]

lol i just take off the side and put it ontop a factory industrial fan....kinda loud but i crank my sht up so who cares..i got tired of gettin little fans and i rather not invest in liquid coolin atm

[jnewman]

Spyware doctor works for me.

How full is your hard disk? swap file size?