nick.dude3
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Hi all,
I was looking through the threads on slow running pc's for ideas on what my issue may be. I have had a 2 week lapse in renewing my AV (I know, I deserve everything I get) and my son has still been playing his online games and yesterday the pc started taking ages to boot up and to open programmes. everything seems to function ok when the programmes are open and there is no general sluggishness about the system, just this 'delay' in certain cases.
Anyway, I loaded my mcafee security centre last night and that hasnt found any problems. Having read through the forums here I began going through the recommended cleanup process but am having difficulty downloading hijackthis v2. I located and downloaded v1.99.1 with no problems but whenever v2 finishes downloading mcafee deletes it as a virus. I have tried downloading it from 2 different sources and get the same result. Does anyone have any idea whats going on? Im not even certain it is a virus/malware/spyware issue, but after reading some of these threads I now realise what a complete novice i am and how little I actually know.
Regards,
Nick
I was looking through the threads on slow running pc's for ideas on what my issue may be. I have had a 2 week lapse in renewing my AV (I know, I deserve everything I get) and my son has still been playing his online games and yesterday the pc started taking ages to boot up and to open programmes. everything seems to function ok when the programmes are open and there is no general sluggishness about the system, just this 'delay' in certain cases.
Anyway, I loaded my mcafee security centre last night and that hasnt found any problems. Having read through the forums here I began going through the recommended cleanup process but am having difficulty downloading hijackthis v2. I located and downloaded v1.99.1 with no problems but whenever v2 finishes downloading mcafee deletes it as a virus. I have tried downloading it from 2 different sources and get the same result. Does anyone have any idea whats going on? Im not even certain it is a virus/malware/spyware issue, but after reading some of these threads I now realise what a complete novice i am and how little I actually know.
Regards,
Nick