IHADAV8.com - Turbo Buick Tech, and Nonsense
General => IHADAV8 Playground => Topic started by: DCEPTCN on May 10 2011, 07:00:41 PM
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So my porn machine has been slowing down a bit lately and even locking up occasionally. I defrag it pretty regularly but that's really not helping. I use it pretty much primarily for internet, so I'm not surprised a whole lot. Plus, every time I fire it up I've got about 100 windows opening telling me to renew my subscription to Norton/buy this/buy that. If I can avoid having to go to a pay service like doublemyspeed. com I'd really prefer it. What's to do?
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I would download the free versions of avira and malawarebytes and clean the crap out of the machine. When finished finding all the stuff those find, you might run Microsoft Essentials which is also free to see if it finds anything.
Not sure which operating system you are running, but both win 7 and Ubuntu 11.04 (which is free) run much faster than any of the old stuff.
Ubuntu being linuxed based avoids a lot of the crap associated with windows.
I use it for 99% of my stuff.
If the machine does not have a minimum of 2gs of memory, that will help...I usually put at least 4gs in because memory is cheap these days
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I've got Win7 and Pentium Dual...not sure about megs/rams/goats. I'm gonna try the above first and then come back crying when I screw it up.
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Steves rec's plus highjackthis or whatever they call it nowadays.
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Ran avira and it said that nothing was detected...hmm .
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keep going, malwarebytes and
http://free.antivirus.com/hijackthis/
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
wouldn't hurt either
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run the malawarebytes stuff
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After running both it *seems* to be quicker. I'll hafta wait until I restart to see how many of the popups have been done away with.
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So my porn machine has been slowing down a bit lately and even locking up occasionally. I defrag it pretty regularly but that's really not helping. I use it pretty much primarily for internet, so I'm not surprised a whole lot. Plus, every time I fire it up I've got about 100 windows opening telling me to renew my subscription to Norton/buy this/buy that. If I can avoid having to go to a pay service like doublemyspeed. com I'd really prefer it. What's to do?
If you went to better p0rи sites you would not have those issues.
AJ___
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I've never viewed any of Satan's sites nor will I ever.
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I've never viewed any of Satan's sites nor will I ever.
Next thing you are going tell us; you are a virgin?
AJ___
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I've never viewed any of Satan's sites nor will I ever.
Next thing you are going tell us; you are a virgin?
AJ___
Is this post-whore stoned?
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I've never viewed any of Satan's sites nor will I ever.
Next thing you are going tell us; you are a virgin?
AJ___
Is this post-whore stoned?
hrmmm
AJ___
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Well did you get it fixed yet?
AJ___
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Well did you get it fixed yet?
AJ___
Seems better.
SA___
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I would not be surprised to see it pick up stuff several times from the malawarebytes run....someone bought me an old machine to try to spruce up....it had more trojans from porn sites than ever came in a box
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hijackthis is usually very revealing wrt toolbars, redirects and popups
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You should download ccleaner and defraggler.
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
http://www.piriform.com/defraggler
I have used them for years.
I also use spybot, Avast Anti-Virus, and highly recommend Commodo as a firewall.
Best of all, it's all free...I've used all of the above since '04 and I've never had an issue and I'm on the internet allot.
Ccleaner is like an enema for your computer and all the temporary files and crap that gets stuck on it. It's also got a great start up tool so you can get rid of allot of useless crap that starts up and just use it when you actually want. The registry cleaner is good to.
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Defrag is useless in Win7 BTW - it runs in the background, no need to manual invoke it anymore.
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There was a stretch where spybot wasn't being updated/worked on, and others products gained traction. Have they resumed? They brag about a 2009 review still...