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Memory usage keeps on increasing

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Cristatus

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I think I have a virus. When I check task manager, and I check under processes, and the image called explorer.exe, the memory keeps on increasing. Is this normal? At the moment it is ~37,000 but still increasing (firefox is at 37,200, and it just passed firefox in terms of memory usage, as I typed this up). Is this normal that it keeps on increasing like this?
 
that's a lot for firefox to be using too, but i get faulty readings like that if i leave the task manager open and look at mem usage, it will just keep on going.
 
Did your anti-virus scans come up clean? Is the "always on protection" still running? What about your anti-spyware scans?
 
Well, I tried to uninstall my other AV, so I had to uninstall McAffee, but the other one (Kaspersky) wouldn't work properly, so I had to uninstall Kaspersky. Now I am AV-less. But I used F-Prot's AV scanner to scan from Hiren's boot disk, and I got a couple of entries, which I simply deleted. Never though about spyware, will go and scan for that now.
 
Install and use AV. Using a limited user account like any sane and intelligent person would should keep most viruses at bay, but it's better to be safe than sorry.
 
Point taken. What is a good online scanner at the moment? I don't have any AVs, as both of them have flopped. 🙁 (both were at least a couple of years old, and won't let me re-install)
 
Unfortunately, I have rebooted at least twice since I thought I was infected.

I'll try TMOHC, see what comes up.
 
Well, I managed to fix the problem. It was just a matter of removing some spyware using Ad-Aware. I didn't have that installed (I can't believe it!) and it found like 40 things to delete on my computer. After removing those, the problem almost immediately stopped. 😀
 
Originally posted by: logic1485
Well, I managed to fix the problem. It was just a matter of removing some spyware using Ad-Aware. I didn't have that installed (I can't believe it!) and it found like 40 things to delete on my computer. After removing those, the problem almost immediately stopped. 😀
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you must not look at ANY pr0n 😛

I know people that will come up with more than 100 entries in just a day of browsing :shocked:
 
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