+- Support Forums (https://www.supportforums.net)
+-- Forum: Categories (https://www.supportforums.net/forumdisplay.php?fid=87)
+--- Forum: Virus Protection, Removals, and HJT Team (https://www.supportforums.net/forumdisplay.php?fid=56)
+---- Forum: Computer Security, Firewalls, and Antivirus (https://www.supportforums.net/forumdisplay.php?fid=10)
+---- Thread: Suggestion to keep your computer running smoothly. (/showthread.php?tid=5511)
Suggestion to keep your computer running smoothly. - Yin - 04-05-2010
I suggest you do a HiJackThis checkup every 2-3 weeks or even every week if you're downloading stuff. Viruses can slow down your computer, and take vital information which we don't want to happen.
They can be at any anaylzer forum, (here, HF, bleeping, techsupport, etc) and it's always good to just check to remove infections if you have them.
RE: Suggestion to keep your computer running smoothly. - .D0T' - 04-05-2010
Another good thing to do would be running regular scans with your anti-virus, anti-malware and anti-spyware products. Using this wide array of products could detect most notorious infections that could be present on your computer.
RE: Suggestion to keep your computer running smoothly. - aiir - 04-05-2010
I keep my laptop cooled all the time, I notice when it slows down a bit and i get suspicious, So i check around to make sure im not infected or anything, I like to use ccleaner from time to time to remove all the unnecessary temp files.
RE: Suggestion to keep your computer running smoothly. - Av917 - 04-05-2010
Unrelated to virus scans i find it very helpful to defragment my disk once a month
RE: Suggestion to keep your computer running smoothly. - nFekted - 04-05-2010
Yeah I just did my first one finally (:
RE: Suggestion to keep your computer running smoothly. - «Ðartz™» - 04-05-2010
Also, check your MSConfig for any odd things at startup.
I recommend only keeping your anti-virus enabled on startup.
RE: Suggestion to keep your computer running smoothly. - Yin - 04-05-2010
(04-05-2010, 03:33 PM).D0T Wrote: Another good thing to do would be running regular scans with your anti-virus, anti-malware and anti-spyware products. Using this wide array of products could detect most notorious infections that could be present on your computer.
That's right.
Also, yeah check MSConfig. I do that quite often too.
RE: Suggestion to keep your computer running smoothly. - .D0T' - 04-05-2010
(04-05-2010, 04:05 PM)«Ðartz™» Wrote: Also, check your MSConfig for any odd things at startup.
I recommend only keeping your anti-virus enabled on startup.
HiJackThis can display this information in the log it produces.
However, only having your anti-virus enabled at start-up would be disastrous. I presume you meant keeping critical system files enabled on start-up as well as your anti-virus.
RE: Suggestion to keep your computer running smoothly. - Yin - 04-05-2010
Yeah, HJT lists your running processes, so with a HJT log it does do that.
RE: Suggestion to keep your computer running smoothly. - Quintus - 04-05-2010
(04-05-2010, 04:05 PM)«Ðartz™» Wrote: Also, check your MSConfig for any odd things at startup.
I recommend only keeping your anti-virus enabled on startup.
However you can never instruct nor entrust a novice with that.