PC slowing down

onejontwo

After much help from you techie guys many many months ago I followed your advice and now intermittently run scans with Malwarebytes, spybot, cc cleaner Glary utilities and use Kaspersky internet security 2010 all the time. All appears virus free. The only problem I now have is recently everything is a lot slower I have an 80 gb hard drive which is 25% full,I use Google chrome and IE and the OS is windows XP. This may be a coincidence but I updated Kaspersky to the latest upgrade and shortly afterwards everything slowed up.Full Scans can take up to 11 hours whereas they used to take around 1 hour Also web pages seem very slow to load in Chrome and IE. Once again I'll be in your debt if you can shed any light on my problem.

OneADay

Funny you should say that - I have Kaspersky 2009 and noted in last few days (from memory) things dragging a little.

I have been twerping around installing things and uninstalling, defragging and all I can think of is its the virus scanner or something.

What might be worth trying (and I hope to when I get time) is to clean up kaspersky list of programs secured to internet access. It might have gotten bloated.

Mind you I have not done any full scans with kaspersky.

[Deleted User]

http://www.kaspersky.com/support/kav7/error?qid=208279621

Do the version numbers tally up?

OneADay

Deleted_User wrote: »

http://www.kaspersky.com/support/kav7/error?qid=208279621

Do the version numbers tally up?

Thats the old version, 2009 is upto version 8.0.0.357 so assume 2010 version is higher than this.

onejontwo

I'm on 2010 version 9.0.0.736 (the latest) upgraded from 2009.

closed

You shouldn't need to do full scans very often, the software protects you in real time.

asininity

Run HiJackThis and post the log here. If your confident that its virus free then you probably have a ton of programs starting at boot time and then running in the background. HiJackThis will tell us what they are and we'll be able to tell you what to stop running on boot.

onejontwo

closed wrote: »

You shouldn't need to do full scans very often, the software protects you in real time.

I do a full scan once a week and a Quick scan daily. Is this about right?

closed

Scans will only pickup things that a resident virus scanner missed because the software didn't know about a particular virus at the time it was picked up, but if the virus was active, the resident scanner would pick it up as soon as it was touched by the system or loaded into memory.

Personally I wouldn't bother with full scans unless you suspect a problem or don't mind leaving the system pounding away for 11 hours, which seems rather excessive for 20GB of data.

How much ram do you have?

onejontwo

1.5 GB of ram

closed

That's plenty, so it's not a ram issue. Does it take 11 hours every time?