Help, Computer Nerds!

[Hellfighter 17]

My computers been slowing down a lot lately. Any advice on a free way to do this would be appreciated.

Also, no, I do not look up pornography.

[Dehan]

ccleaner, try that free microsoft spy/malware remover, and it also defrags your harddrive or somethign to make it run a bit faster.

That's all I got.

[Raz]

Also

Confusion

Did what Waff suggest be enough to play B&W2!? At this point the discs'll either be the source of most my time playing or very pretty drink coasters.

[Hellfighter 17]

My computer's actually supposed to be pretty good, and was running fine until just a couple of days ago.

[King Cold444]

Yeah. A good spyware removal program would be the best bet. And if you could find a Corporate version of either symantec or norton anti-virus (or both) then that should be installed (if you haven't already) after you pull genocide on the spyware. Or it could be the memory.

[Dehan]

got any teens in the house just hitting puberty? that's how my computer got a case of spy and malware...cousin just turned 13 and he's learnt the many pleasures of porn...*sigh* logged on one day to see some stuff I didn't know about...stuff I didn't want to know about .

*shivers* try ccleaner first.

[Mowgli]

What I usually do is get rid of old pics/songs etc. that I don't need anymore, then defragment the disk drive, cleanup the disk drive, then use Ad-Aware and Defender and I'm good for a while. Currently 84% of my memory is free so... I have no problems over here.

[Jewtastic]

As Turles said, Crap Cleaner is your best bet for Spyware...as with Spybot S&D and Spyware Blaster. If you need an anti virus NOD32 is going to be the top of the line. However figuring out NOD32 is a pain in the ass. So go with Crap Cleaner (CCleaner) and that should help ya out.

[Jewtastic]

1) where do you buy RAM that its 200?
2) a new Processor would require a new motherboard...so thats out of the question.
3) Harddrive...I doubt he would get anything other then a 7200 so once again, not really speeding things up.


Oh, and CCleaner works better then HiJackThis and S&D

[Jewtastic]

I doubt HF knows his specs as of right now, but really, if you are going to get a new chip at this point you should upgrade to at least a 64 bit or even a Duel Core. Meaning, if he doesn't have a socket 754, 939, or AM2 he would need a new one. Really to get anything less then a 64 bit 3000+ would just be silly.

[Krillin]

I've got the sudden urge to jump into the conversation and spout a bunch of numbers that show Kid Buu is just BS-ing this computer-ness.

But I got nothin. I don't understand comps, I just use them, and hope they magically be able to run Oblivion better one day.

[Captain Silver]

I don't think he's jealous of a 6 year old PC.

[Dehan]

Ccleaner works great...and this is coming from a guy who had porn sites and other crap popping up every time he searched for recipes for dinner and other things .

Still download S&D because that's a great one too for spyware and stuff.

[Vegeta Jr]

Originally posted by King Cold
either symantec or norton anti-virus (or both)

Rofl?

Symantec = creator of Norton

Plus, Norton sucks.

[Whompt]

Since this topic is already up, I figure I'll ask my own question.

While browsing the more adult sites online, I must have picked up some really nasty spyware. Symantec can't seem to find it, and I can't figure out what's benevolent software on my computer and what might be that fucking virus. The funny thing is, the spyware keeps directing me to an anti-spyware website that wants me to download a program.

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone here had any ideas on how to nip this thing in the bud. All I've been able to do so far is block the IPs of the sites it wants to send me to, and that's pretty much just keeping those sites from loading. It's really starting to annoy me.

[Vegeta Jr]

Oh, and the best is to:

1.) Reinstall windows
2.) Install a good antivirus prog
3.) Install a couple antispyware progs

[Captain Silver]

Originally posted by Kid Buu

Originally posted by Pui Pui
I don't think he's jealous of a 6 year old PC.

Shows how quick and agile you are. He was talking about my smarts. Not my computer. >.>

I read what you said, and half of what you said, you repeated half of what Mura said. And added some common know how. Such a defrag, that doesn't make your computer faster by the why. It orders everything up, because when I computer stores something, it randomly piles them in hepes aroudn the hardrive, that program is made so it groups them together making it nice and tidy. But, in some cases, it can make your computer slightly faster. But you can't even notice it. But carry on, this is interesting.

[Vegeta Jr]

Mod Alert: Guys, even though we all know you look at pr0n, this is the Asylum. Not the 18+ board. So let's assume no one visits such sites here. :]

[Krillin]

Right. And while we're at it, it'd be best if you didn't mention your personal gender at all, just in case some underage member of the site starts dreaming about you naked.

[Captain Silver]

Originally posted by Vegeta Jr
Oh, and the best is to:

1.) Reinstall windows
2.) Install a good antivirus prog
3.) Install a couple antispyware progs

Thats the best thing to do, because you could just have some basic Adware problems. I'd recommend backing up some important stuff, and do what VJ said. Oh yeah, KB, Norton doesn't suck. It's the best program I use, I haven't had an attack, virus or whatever, yet.