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[Isaacthekid]

I have an HPPAVILLION g6 windows 8 notebook. Almost brand new, my mother barely uses it for anything besides surfing,facebook or email sign ins. So i recently decided to run it through some steps, downloaded a few programs i am familiar with(utorrent,winrar,daemon) and some torrent games previously installed on my desktop computer. Everything was working fine until out of know where it started to slow down when i played medieval 2 total war.

I tried to fix it but nothing worked and i could not find anytype of malicious software or virus so i decided to refresh the pc(horrible idea) now it says the files needed to refresh again are missing,the pc has for the first time ever frozen, the load up time has gone up to 5-10 seconds which is ok but slow compared to the previous start up times, the boot time has also extended and the blue refresh icon keeps popping up everytime i open a new program or tab.

This would be seen as normal but before it never popped up, programs temporarily do not respond for up to 1 second but then are ok the next, when i run a scan it will be unresponsive unless i am directly hovering the mouse over it or clicking on it. I went into registry also when i found a adware called "sweetpacks" but i might have messed up another file or 2.


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[TheStu]

Ok, well my first guess is that your space bar may be broken... 😉

What AV do you have installed? And this may be better placed in Computer Help.

 

[Ketchup]

Sounds like you caught a virus or some type of Malware. Malware is often the price that must be paid for ripping software off of torrents.

What antivirus programs have you tried? The two I most highly recommend are SuperAntispyware and Malwarebytes AntiMalware.

 

[Isaacthekid]

I did not rip software off... i simply borrowed it(copyright=right to copy!) Ha but you're correct i did bring this upon myself which is why i am just going to buy the games from now on much easier and less time consuming. I had planned to do that from the get go but credit card issues etc.

Anyway i was running malwarebytes but i have not installed any other anti-virus programs. I chose full scan but since i was not currently viewing the program it was unbearably slow, still scanning 4 hours later. Today i ran quick scan and it did not detect anything also not sure if this is relevant but i turned off some anti-malware that was built into my laptop that had my cpu usage spiking after that i refreshed and that's when it went to hell.

 

[Puppies04]

Get one of the antivirus boot cds, you can burn AVGs one from here http://www.avg.com/gb-en/avg-rescue-cd. I have yet to find a virus they can't detect/remove however YMMV.

 

[Puppies04]

By the way, leave it running over night, they can take several hours depending onthe size of your HDDs.