I previously had an issue last week with malware and slow running computer. I could not complete the spybot scan. It would stop running. I visited the forum and someone helped me, but things got worse from there
That is the link to 5 pages of posts. The person who assisted me suggested I come over here . I am running my computer in safemode because whe I startup in normal it shuts down seemingly after avast announces that my computer is protected.
Here are the requested logs from DDS
Boot to Safe Mode.
Click on Start then Run, type msconfig and press Enter.
Click on the Startup tab, record what is currently starting then click the Disable All button.
Do a regular boot, see if it runs normal.
If yes then use msconfig to enable several items at a time till you find the culprit.
If no, boot to Safe Mode again. Start msconfig and click on the Services tab.
Check the Hide All Microsoft Services box, record what is currently starting then click the Disable All button.
Again, do a regular boot, see if it runs normal.
If yes then use msconfig to enable services till you find the culprit.
Once you've found the culprit, uninstall it or find out how to eliminate it from your system. Simply disabling it in msconfig is a temporary fix at best.
Enable everything else you disabled.
I followed your first instructions about disabling and after about 3 minutes running, the computer shut down , so I went to step two and disabled all in normal mode. So far I haven't been booted off so I will continue enabling one at a time. Will be back with my results. Thanks
I think my problem was related to Avast installation. It was not opening up so I did a repair. It seems to be running OK as I started in normal mode and no crashes as yet Should I post new logs now?
Thanks
I previously installed Microsoft Essentials as per the instructions from the spybot forum person who helped me; however, if you look at the link, I had a lot of problems with it, so He told me to uninstall
When MSE is first installed, it does you resources. First while it updates the virus signature files and again when it runs it's first scan. After that it's almost transparent, at least it is for me on the computers I've installed it on. everything from a 450Mhz HP Pavilion with 256MB ram to a 3.4Gb Alienware with 8GB of ram.
Mainly I want to see if removing Avast gets rid of the problem. If yes then you could try reinstalling it or giving MSE another try.
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