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My computer is bogging down on me randomly. I've tried restarting, looking at my processes, looking in critical places. But I have yet to find anything. Also I have Kaspersky and that hasn't found anything? Any suggestions?

Download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. Then run a full scan and remove any malicious material it finds.

If the problems still persist, I advise visiting the White Hat section of HackForums and requesting a member of the HJT team guide you through the infection removal process. Their services are free.

If you want a review that isn't based off OTL, or HiJackThis logs, I would suggest that you check your Event Viewer for any critical errors or warnings. Check your hard drive for any corrupted sectors or errors. Check the fragmented level (%) on your hard drive as well, and if it's more than 7-10% do a Defrag. Make sure that any unnecessary services aren't running or unnecessary applications that get started from startup.

Also, how about your PC specs?
-Total RAM (virtual/installed)
-CPU

Hope you get your computer back up and running to speed again.

I would recommend you to contact HijackThis Squad member.

(09-06-2011, 09:28 PM)Riggs Wrote: [ -> ]Download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. Then run a full scan and remove any malicious material it finds.

If the problems still persist, I advise visiting the White Hat section of HackForums and requesting a member of the HJT team guide you through the infection removal process. Their services are free.

Yeah, I already had Malwarebytes and that didn't find anything. I'll probably post in the whitehat section.

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(09-06-2011, 11:18 PM)Ace Wrote: [ -> ]If you want a review that isn't based off OTL, or HiJackThis logs, I would suggest that you check your Event Viewer for any critical errors or warnings. Check your hard drive for any corrupted sectors or errors. Check the fragmented level (%) on your hard drive as well, and if it's more than 7-10% do a Defrag. Make sure that any unnecessary services aren't running or unnecessary applications that get started from startup.

Also, how about your PC specs?
-Total RAM (virtual/installed)
-CPU

Hope you get your computer back up and running to speed again.

I don't think it's my specs I have 2 sticks of 2GB ram and and AMD Athlon II X3 Processor 3.1 GHz

Did you check the other things I mentioned though? No errors

(09-07-2011, 12:37 PM)Ace Wrote: [ -> ]Did you check the other things I mentioned though? No errors

I looked in Event viewer however I don't know what fragmented level is.

Run this in cmd prompt and you can pass arguments directly to defrag.exe


"C:" being the drive you want to analyze. You can change that to whatever drive you want to check.

(09-07-2011, 01:04 PM)Ace Wrote: [ -> ]Run this in cmd prompt and you can pass arguments directly to defrag.exe

Code:

defrag C: /a

"C:" being the drive you want to analyze. You can change that to whatever drive you want to check.

Defragging C drive now

That wasn't a command for defragging, that was just the command to check, but if you were ranging from 7-10% then you should do a defrag.