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 Jul 7 2008, 01:48 AM
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 the name's mario  Group: Official Member Posts: 1,270 Joined: Jun 2008 Member No: 656,520  |
I didn't find another suitable place to post this so im just going to post it here
i have problems with my computer i have a Windows XP with 30.9 GB hard drive and last night i downloaded some software and i think it had a virus cuz i had about 9.22 GB left before the download and later i checked and i had about 2 GB left, then 1GB, then 800MB i did a virus scan and spyware scan and they took long, but deleted some threating files and still had low memory so i did a system restore to before i downloaded the software and still had low memory, then i did a system recovery and went up to 2.22GB. What can i do? is there a way i can now wich file(s) takes the most memory? What Antivirus and Antispyware do you recommend and it has to be free software? Right now i have Norton free edition or something; i downloaded it from google software or something like that, i also have Spyware Terminator |
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Jul 7 2008, 05:38 AM
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 durian Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 13,124 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,860 |
I have a macbook now, but when I used to own a PC with Windows XP, I would use Grisoft's AVG anti-virus. It's handy because it detects viruses/trojans pretty fast. As for spyware, I would just use Lavasoft's Ad-Aware.
I don't know if a system restore will do much though. And wtf you have a hard drive with 30.9 GB?!  
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Jul 7 2008, 05:48 AM
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the name's mario Group: Official Member Posts: 1,270 Joined: Jun 2008 Member No: 656,520 |
^^ yeah haha
it's my first computer, got it like 4 years ago. i want a new one but the hard times in the economy just make it harder |
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Jul 10 2008, 11:09 AM
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the name's mario Group: Official Member Posts: 1,270 Joined: Jun 2008 Member No: 656,520 |
whoo
fixed it, it went up to 27Gb free space but that's cuz it deleted like 2GB of music, pictures, videos & documents but thank god i made a copy of documents, pictures & music on discs hahaha im so happy 
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Jul 10 2008, 12:42 PM
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the name's mario Group: Official Member Posts: 1,270 Joined: Jun 2008 Member No: 656,520 |
someone close this topic
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Jul 10 2008, 03:09 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Administrator Posts: 2,648 Joined: Apr 2008 Member No: 639,265 |
It might not be a virus. How much RAM do you have? You may have just had a large chunk of hard drive space used up as swap space.
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