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hi everyone.
Since a day or so my computer started slowing down horribly.
The task manager indicates the processor running at over 50% most of the time (except when Im practically doing nothing) and it goes to a full 100% at the slightest effort, especially any 'real time' applications. It seems to be getting worse. I played this flash mmorpg online yesterday wich worked perfectly and today I can hardly get to move around in it at all.
There are only 2 things I can imagine somehow being the cause of this:
1) I fooled around on some unsavory sites a couple days ago (mostly out of pre exam boredom syndrome)... infection?
2) before 1) i had this screen before startup one time saying something about my adaptor not adapting properly (I'd get the proper wording once I see it again I suppose) and then I chose to let it do some tests. This apparelty caused my computer to run an amount of cpu tests that took so long I just skipped it eventually.
So anyways my best guess is infection. Im really worried because my comp seems crippled as it is now, seriously.
I would go to bleepingcomputer to post a log file (altho that would prolly lead to a team of experts seeing what sites I visited) but it seems the former hijackthis dl page doesnt work anymore.
Is there any way I can still dl it? By the way I still have an older version on my older pc but will that be any good though?
Also, could it be something else? how do I begin to distinguish if its really infection and not some other software or hardware problem?
Im looking forward to some help with this, really.
I suppose Ill be in safe mode in the mean time seeing what I can do with the most obvious anti spyware tools.
Have a happy 2009
Since a day or so my computer started slowing down horribly.
The task manager indicates the processor running at over 50% most of the time (except when Im practically doing nothing) and it goes to a full 100% at the slightest effort, especially any 'real time' applications. It seems to be getting worse. I played this flash mmorpg online yesterday wich worked perfectly and today I can hardly get to move around in it at all.
There are only 2 things I can imagine somehow being the cause of this:
1) I fooled around on some unsavory sites a couple days ago (mostly out of pre exam boredom syndrome)... infection?
2) before 1) i had this screen before startup one time saying something about my adaptor not adapting properly (I'd get the proper wording once I see it again I suppose) and then I chose to let it do some tests. This apparelty caused my computer to run an amount of cpu tests that took so long I just skipped it eventually.
So anyways my best guess is infection. Im really worried because my comp seems crippled as it is now, seriously.
I would go to bleepingcomputer to post a log file (altho that would prolly lead to a team of experts seeing what sites I visited) but it seems the former hijackthis dl page doesnt work anymore.
Is there any way I can still dl it? By the way I still have an older version on my older pc but will that be any good though?
Also, could it be something else? how do I begin to distinguish if its really infection and not some other software or hardware problem?
Im looking forward to some help with this, really.
I suppose Ill be in safe mode in the mean time seeing what I can do with the most obvious anti spyware tools.
Have a happy 2009
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