Peformance Problems

Gamer123 · Mar 16, 2007

Hello all, and thank you for reading my post.

I have a few problems with performance it started when I got a pop up warning from "Spyware Quake." Now I don't know what that pop up was and didn't care at the time didn't really bother me. So I left it only alone till I had enough of it randomly crashing my games or randomly minimizing my game while playing it.

So I looked into it and I found out that it was bad for my computer, which shocked me because of how long I kept it on my computer so I ran a Spyware and Virus check. Actually found more then Spyware I had many bad hidden programs on my computer which included Trojan which SHOCKED me even more.

I downloaded anti-Spyware programs, Virus, Registry Etc. Now I scanned and quarantined all the bad programs they found but for some reason I still have performance problems. Also I found that when I ran another scan with another free anti-spyware and virus program it seemed to pick up the exact same programs. I'm confused and would like some expert help I have Search and Destroy, Zone Alarm firewall, SE personal, and the new program Spyware Terminator which I saw in a magizine. What should I do?

chaslang · Mar 16, 2007

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Panda Scan - from step 6

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Peformance Problems

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