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Horrorfest on 03 February 2013
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Marucha said:
Horrorfest said:
Any recommendations for something that kills spyware and malware all in one go? I tried out malwarebytes and a full scan wasn't even done after an hour and a half so I aborted it. It didn't find anything. It just blocked a few sites. Any help is appreciated. I have no idea what is wrong.


Malware and spyware are basically the same thing. If you didn't run the scan all the way, you can't expect it to do what it's supposed to if there is anything there to find. Is this the same machine you asked about in another in this thread? Is it possible you are just running a little too much in the background? I was looking at your processes...10 or so processes open for Chrome? Is that like 10 tabs of Chrome open? The memory usage by Chrome doesn't seem like it's anything unusual... no different than my Firefox after I've been on the web for a while. I've seen mine go over a gig of RAM easily... I also see some processes in your background that don't seem necessary. Like PC Doctor? Did you download that to try to fix your problem? Some of those downloadable fix-it programs are actually spyware in disquise...

MalwareBytes will find it and clean it for you... if there is spyware. I like Spyware Blaster because it does block it, but it's passive protection (i.e. innoculations) so it doesn't run constantly. Spybot also does the same thing as Malware Bytes (and does innoculation), but they've changed the program a lot and I haven't had the time to look at it yet since I've used it... I just use Malware Bytes now. I did notice they added a better resident scan program (active scan).

 

Quick question though... What do you mean by slowdown for your computer? You mentioned CPU usage of 5-10%... that's perfectly normal usage. A spyware problem would look more like if the processor gets bottled necked at the drop of a hat and if your windows are freezing for long periods of time,etc etc... If it's a mobile processor like you mentioned in the other thread, it's not going to have nearly the oomph or staying power of a desktop because of the CPU. ESPECIALLY when multi-tasking. 6MB of RAM won't fix a thing if the CPU can't keep up. It will help things run a little smoother when trying to get programs back up after minimizing them, but overall the CPU could still be a bottleneck.


I have no idea what PC doctor is. No I only have one tab for chrome. My computer will run fine for awhile and basically it randomly freezes up. I was watching a video and like every few mins or at least half way through it will suddenly freeze up. Then it takes like 7 mins until I can play it again. 

I did just notice when I went to this site it was instantly. Whenever my computer has been running well recently there would still be like a second where things take to load. I'm hoping malwarebytes found the issue and got rid of it. I have Microsoft security essentials. Should I run that?