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friedmonky:
If PC SpeedUp is not in your startup folder but is popping up at every boot, then PC SpeedUp is malware, virus, etc (big surprise right?). I suggest giving your whole hard drive a thorough scan using a good antivirus program such as Microsoft Security Essentials. Others may disagree with my advice, or choice of antivirus program. However, they simply do not know what they are talking about (even though they think they do). Everyone and their brother is a "PC tech". :rolleyes:
Shane:
"However, they simply do not know what they are talking about (even though they think they do)"
Well I guess I think I do, and I am a pc tech :tongue:
I use to put MS security essentials on my customers machines. But MS has the slower scanner on the market so it caused programs to take up to 5 sec or more longer to open because you where waiting for it to scan.
http://www.av-comparatives.org/
So I started putting the free Panda cloud Online and it has a better detect rate, same low false positives as MS and a faster scanner.
Malwarebytes is a good scanner to run as well.
But I dont think you have a virus. You emailed me the contents of the notepad and it wasn't a virus.
Go to start then run and put in msconfig
There check the startup tab and tell me what you have :-)
A screen shot of the tab might be even better.
Shane
friedmonky:
"But I dont think you have a virus. You emailed me the contents of the notepad and it was a virus."
Huh? :thinking:
As for www.av-comparatives.org they last tested performance tested MSE in December of 2010 using version 1.0 :rolleyes: Hardly a reliable resource in October of 2011. It flies right through a scan on my machine and uses hardly any resources at all. It has saved me many many times on customer machines when other AVs have failed miserably. I don't like the AVs that use cloud technology - too many things can go wrong and leave the machine wide open for infection.
"Well I guess I think I do, and I am a pc tech"
That was not aimed at anyone in particular, especially not you. :wink:
Shane:
--- Quote from: friedmonky on October 27, 2011, 11:01:52 am ---"But I dont think you have a virus. You emailed me the contents of the notepad and it was a virus."
Huh? :thinking:
As for www.av-comparatives.org they last tested performance tested MSE in December of 2010 using version 1.0 :rolleyes: Hardly a reliable resource in October of 2011. It flies right through a scan on my machine and uses hardly any resources at all. It has saved me many many times on customer machines when other AVs have failed miserably. I don't like the AVs that use cloud technology - too many things can go wrong and leave the machine wide open for infection.
"Well I guess I think I do, and I am a pc tech"
That was not aimed at anyone in particular, especially not you. :wink:
--- End quote ---
Bad spelling on my part, should say "wasn't" a virus. I need more coffee.
Take a look at the Aug 2011 results
http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/ondret/avc_od_aug2011.pdf
As for what AV to use it came down to a few things. I was using MS. But when it causes the system to slow down I had to dump it. I did a ton of test on it to confirm.
Avira went the toolbar route and I dumped them. Avast is bloated but has a fast scanner, and AVG is a joke (See false positive results)
In the Agu 2011 detection test they did MS had a 92.3 % rate while Panda had a 99.3% Both panda and MS only had 1 false positive. And panda had a faster scanner.
There hasn't been a SINGLE AV on a machine I didn't have to clean a virus off of. So I don't care which a customer users. I want it to stay out of the way, be free and not slow the system down. MS does all of this but the last. it does slow things down.
We are getting off topic here :-)
Shane
friedmonky:
I've only seen MS slow down old XP machines with 512MB of ram. :cheesy: If MS slows down any Win7 machine after installation, I guarantee you that that particular machine has already been compromised in some way, either viral or failing hardware.
Let's just agree to disagree on this because we could go on forever and you're right, we're getting way off topic here. :smiley:
You know what they say about opinions right? :cheesy:
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