need urgent PC help

[bikesniffer]

PC acting up in a big way

-loads of hungapp's

-memory always running at 75-90% capacity (768MB RAM)

-"program not responding" messages

-everything is reeeeaaaaaaaaaaal slow

-rebooted and now can't restore active desktop

ran dustbuster, CCleaner, did scan with avg, right now scanning with ad-aware, defrag no help either

so what's left???

Any help is greatly appreciated

Alfredo

 

[SouthernCruizer]

YOu could try System restore if you just started having problems. Could be anything from a Windows update to installing new software or hardware to a trojan or other malicious code. On the restore, go back a few days to a date before you started having problems.

 

[bikesniffer]

YOu could try System restore if you just started having problems. Could be anything from a Windows update to installing new software or hardware to a trojan or other malicious code. On the restore, go back a few days to a date before you started having problems.

I did try that too to no avail... something seems to be seriously phucked in there...

but thanks for suggesting it

 

[FJRBluesman]

Me thinks you have a bug. Try running all your antivirus S/W and Malware/spyware S/W.

My PC was real bloody slow mainly on the web. I had some trojans etc. I did Adaware, and a couple other Malware programs to get this fixed. Took me like all day as the virus was shutting me down when I tried to run the anti-spyware.

I also had to run my McAfee a few times after, actually it wouldn't fix the trojans initially, I had to do that with the malware S/W stuff.

Good luck.

***EDIT**

I also had to do some of this in SAFE MODE.

 

[bikesniffer]

Me thinks you have a bug. Try running all your antivirus S/W and Malware/spyware S/W.
My PC was real bloody slow mainly on the web. I had some trojans etc. I did Adaware, and a couple other Malware programs to get this fixed. Took me like all day as the virus was shutting me down when I tried to run the anti-spyware.

I also had to run my McAfee a few times after, actually it wouldn't fix the trojans initially, I had to do that with the malware S/W stuff.

Good luck.

***EDIT**

I also had to do some of this in SAFE MODE.

yep sure sounds like my problem...I'm in safe mode as we speak...

Thanks for the input

Alfredo

 

[FJRBluesman]

If you have access to another PC also write down all error messages and research those on the web. That could get you pointed real fast to the problem.

I was fortunate enough (if you call it that) that my daughters PC had an issue, took me most of the day to fix it looking it up on my PC getting some free Malware S/W downloads online etc and then transferring them to my daughters PC and I had to turn some things off I've never heard of thru some back door way etc. It was bloody ugly.

Then a couple weeks later I get the same thing! I at least had stored on my stick all the tools to repair this, but since it was shutting down on me all the time I had stay for whole process all day. One thing the web told me to do as my PC was shutting down (it gave me a one minute warning) was to immediately stop the malware S/W and quarantine everything. After a couple times of this and using 3 different anti-spyware S/W I found all the culprits that my McAfee could not delete.

Needless to say I don't want to do this again anytime soon.

Good luck.

 

[SouthernCruizer]

It's a pain in the butt, but if all else fails, do a full recovery AFTER you have back up all your data, email, and browser favorites and cookies. You'll of course have to reload all your programs and tolerate all the windows updates, but at least you'll be running a "new" computer again.

 

[bikesniffer]

It's a pain in the butt, but if all else fails, do a full recovery AFTER you have back up all your data, email, and browser favorites and cookies. You'll of course have to reload all your programs and tolerate all the windows updates, but at least you'll be running a "new" computer again.

yep last option incl. the pain

 

[bikesniffer]

It's a pain in the butt, but if all else fails, do a full recovery AFTER you have back up all your data, email, and browser favorites and cookies. You'll of course have to reload all your programs and tolerate all the windows updates, but at least you'll be running a "new" computer again.

yep last option incl. the pain

now I am trying to restore a backup and I get:

INDEX CORRUPTED ON DRIVE C!

 

[wfooshee]

You may have a failing drive, a hardware problem rather than malware or software corruption. That would manifest itself as repeated errors in the pagefile causing delays, apps unable to re-access data they just had on hand, things like that. As I was reading the thread I was thinking of hardware possibilities, then the index corrupted message reinforced it for me.

A really good way to test for malware is to not even boot from the disk in order to test it. These get technical, but there's a very good one called the Ultimate Boot CD. You boot the system from the CD, which runs its own Windows OS in a RAM drive, and has access to the hard disk. You've got a cleanly booted system from which you can run numerous included utilities for registry, antivirus, and spyware.

You can also remove the disk and install it as a second drive in a known good system. Do not copy anything from the suspect disk onto the good disk, but the suspect disk can be scanned for viruses and malware while running as a second disk in the system, although access to its registry is a little more complicated.

Malwarebytes.org has a very good scanner, as does SuperAntispyware. (The latter sounds lame, but is a very good product.) Both are free.

 

[RenoJohn]

If ice doesn't work ...have you tried a potato??

 

[jzzmusician]

I would bet a lot you have a virus.

Download SuperAntiSpyware. It's the best one out there right now. I had issues just as you described a few months ago and this program took care of it.

Bob

 

[bikesniffer]

THANKS EVERYONE!

THE 3 MONTHS OLD HARD DRIVE WAS TOAST

Just ordered a new one.

Alfredo

 

[wfooshee]

I win! I win! First correct answer!!!!! :yahoo:

Um, is there a prize?

Glad to try to help. Kinda cool that a bunch of bike guys might have some other technical know-hows!

 

[bikesniffer]

I win! I win! First correct answer!!!!! :yahoo:
Um, is there a prize?

Glad to try to help. Kinda cool that a bunch of bike guys might have some other technical know-hows!

Yep you were absolutely right, as soon as I d/l the Western Digital diagnostic tool it was a clear case of HD failure...

as for your prize: You have a beer and a BBQ meal whenever you make it to Switzerland and me happening to be around at the same time... :yahoo:

Alfredo

 

[radman]

Malwarebytes.org has a very good scanner, as does SuperAntispyware. (The latter sounds lame, but is a very good product.) Both are free.

Have used both. *** savers. Sometimes it takes several programs to clean a system-in my case, it took 5.

 

[caryt]

IMO..McAfee, Norton etc are junk. Ever system I have worked on that has problems runs them. Get the free ones as mentioned! Additionaly get Spybot, Spyware blaster and AVG free along with Windows Defender.

 

[wfooshee]

Yep you were absolutely right, as soon as I d/l the Western Digital diagnostic tool it was a clear case of HD failure...
as for your prize: You have a beer and a BBQ meal whenever you make it to Switzerland and me happening to be around at the same time... :yahoo:

Alfredo

Damn, already been to Switzerland, not likely to get there again soon. Although it was 45 years ago!!! (My dad's job sent us to Germany in the mid 60s, and we got around quite a bit while over there. I was only 8 or 9 years old at the time!)

 

[bikesniffer]

Yep you were absolutely right, as soon as I d/l the Western Digital diagnostic tool it was a clear case of HD failure...
as for your prize: You have a beer and a BBQ meal whenever you make it to Switzerland and me happening to be around at the same time... :yahoo:

Alfredo

Damn, already been to Switzerland, not likely to get there again soon. Although it was 45 years ago!!! (My dad's job sent us to Germany in the mid 60s, and we got around quite a bit while over there. I was only 8 or 9 years old at the time!)

What do you mean not likely??? I would think that after 45 yrs it's about time you get your *** over here and have some fun, sounds like you're just a tad younger than me, so what's holdin you up?

Alfredo