Thursday, October 22, 2009

My computer is running slow and I have a virus it says and i?

already have the free edition of avg anti spyware and avg anti virus so what can i do not it also says i have little virtual memory left it was working fine a few days ago thanks for your help D



My computer is running slow and I have a virus it says and i?downloads



Have you got anti spyware and a decent firewall, if not I have used AVG Anti Virus, Zone Alarm Firewall, Spy-bot Search and Destroy and Ad Aware both spyware killers for years. They are all free for personal use and I have had no trouble with Viruses Trojans etc. AVG does not slow the system down as much as some other products and Zone Alarm allows a lot of personal configuration unlike the Windows Firewall. They can all be downloaded from the following link. http://www.computeractive.co.uk/ On the home page select downloads and then the appropriate category.I also use Windows Defender from the Microsoft site. It is safe to use two anti-spy products but never use more than one A/V as it can cause conflicts. You should run A/V and anti spy weekly. Hope this helps.



My computer is running slow and I have a virus it says and i?house call



Most viruses tend to be .exe files and they like to hide in the program files folder. They can be hidden there too so you might want to make sure you make hidden files visible. Basically, if it's something with a pornographic or very unusual name, it's a virus (unless of course you downloaded something like that). When you install a program it houses itself in the program files folder, but will have it's own seperate folder. The ones that just sit in the program files folder are usually a virus. Try to use avg just to scan this area and see what it comes up with. It should show you which files are viruses then you can manually go in and remove them. Otherwise try Clamwin Anti-virus which i find much better than AVG.
Clear cache, delete unused movie projects, save .wav music files to disk (as data) and delete them, do the same with .avi movies you may have....they take up huge amounts of memory , defrag..........You should be good to go after that.
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