How do i find out whats installing?

andreaandrea

My PC has been running slow for a while and ive just had some fraud on my account.

At the minute im getting something thats installed and i keep getting restart my pc to install - now i havnt installed anything new - how do i find out what this is?

Im not sure if these things are connected or if im just being paranoid now

Im just doing a scan with spybot S & D and have already done a scan with my emails providers system - should i do anything else?

Hungerdunger

Could it be something as innocent as a Windows update?

I'm on XP and had some updates recently. It does nag you to restart your computer every few minutes.

CandyUrban

After your pc has started up, right click on the bar at the bottom and bring up your task manager. You should be able to see in there if there's anything odd going on that shouldn't be. However, if you don't know what you're doing in there, don't touch anything!

If there's a Windows update going on, you should see it in your task manager as Update.exe or similar.

Also, have a wee look in your control panel at the 'add or remove programs' section. If there's something in there that you know for a fact that you haven't downloaded or installed, get rid of it.