System Restore

[A.Guest]

Appear to have a number of issues: Freezing screen, long waits for websites to load, time-outs, etc etc.

Considering a system restore to an earlier date. Will yesterday's changing of the clocks cause problems within my computer?

Many thanks.

[Ice.Maiden]

When this continually happened to mine, the hard drive was wiped, and I started again!
Have you defragged lately?
I've been told that too much downloading can cause computers to slow down as well.

[Ice.Maiden]

That's a point! Leggy's right - run regular scans and check for spyware and viruses.

[ChuckFickens]

no the changing of the clocks won't effect anything.

But why a system restore, update all drivers make sure you've got all the latest windows updates, run a full AV and spyware scan. run target='_blank' href="" target="_blank"rel="nofollow">http://www.ccleaner.com/">Ccleaner to clear all the temporary files and other rubbish and you'll probably end up with a better results then a restore gives you.

[ChuckFickens]

DOH...

Run Ccleaner

http://www.ccleaner.com/

[A.Guest]

Thanks Leg.

I do have AVG 8 paid for version which scans every day.

Will your link conflict with AVG?

Icey . . Many thanks for the advice.

I defrag and disc scan every week and AVG scans every day at 6a.m. and updates twice during the daytime.

Thanks again

[ChuckFickens]

AVG is anti virus,

Malwarebytes is anti spyware and malware, they are different things so you can have both installed at once

Though I prefer adaware to malwarebytes

[A.Guest]

Thanks chuck. On the Windows updates issue, I have SP1 and 2 but when I allow further updates it downloads SP3 and that DOES cause lots more problems on my pc.

[ChuckFickens]

No need to shout :)

AVG, mcafee, are anti virus program, not anti malware or spyware.

spybot is meant to be anti spyware, but it's rubbish!

Adaware is the best in my opinion, but I have heard that malwarebytes does the job too.

Ccleaner clears all your temporary files and other rubbish that just left laying about on systems after a little while that although they are harmless they do effect performance.

[Ethel]

I've been using AdAware and A Squared for a long time - I ran the one Leg recommends and it found absolutely nothing.
So all my freebie protection must be working.

:)

[A.Guest]

Thanks again chuck

This is the version of AVG I have at present.

http://www.avg.com/product-avg-anti-virus

I am always cautious about downloading too many because of possible conflicts.

However, will see what happens.

Thanks Ethel also

[ACtheTROLL]

This keeps coming back - I know it's a controvercial subject round here.

leggy - I'm sure you mean well
but you've managed to link every application you've recommended with the wrong function

>>>malware bites found 100s of viruses?
>>>spybot couldnt neither could macafee and avg and c >>>cleaner toofailed
>>>c cleaner was sugested on here to me
>>>malwarebytes is far better .
>>>in my non tech opinion

the only malware scanner in the whole lot was spybot
the rest are virus scanners
ccleaner is a system cleaner - nothing to do with virus or malware ..... should you really be offering others the benefit of your experience?

perhaps the reason nothing else finds anything is that nothing is actually there - (false positives)

ethel - how do you know it's not there ?
using rubbish to detect nothing isn't really the way to measure mediocrity

As I was going up the stair
I saw a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
Oh how I wish he'd go away

I must admit I know almost nothing about the real meat of virus and malware scanners.
I know enough to be concerned - and I have friends in the business who make a lot of money from this stuff - I value their opinions.

I know I like the taste of chocolate - but how do you judge a good scanner?
To find something means your existing protection is lacking
not finding anything ... that can also mean your protection is lacking.

it's only if you KNOW you infected your machine with 100 viruses and X found all of them that you can make a real opinion.

and that's what the magazines and security types do (I haven't done it in 20 years!) - they actually infect a machine and then scan it . and then protect a machine and see if they can

[ACtheTROLL]

how do we do it?
"well it's free!" and the bloke down the pub said that someone he knows said .........

I'll stick with the mags on this one - the rest is just opinion - hell I don't even trust my own opinion on this subject - I rely on the kindness of others
..... Predictable and cautious

if I'm wrong - well I'll buy you all a pint this xmas

[sir.knobby]

I had exactly the same probs Mr.A and I also solved allsorts by running malwarebytes and it got rid of all sorts of nasty that spybot missed and comp is runnung 5 times faster now


Also it took ages to start up so I got a start up proggrame I think ethell put me onto it but cant seem to find where it is at the mo and that tells you all proggrames that are not neccesary to run on start up and thats made a hell of a dif as well