pc freezes.

[ColOfPopcorn]

My pc just randomly freezes while I play simple games like hearthstone and dota 2. I used to play BF4 so I know it can run theses games. Also it just started today. Another thing is when I found a match in hearthstone my pc got REALLY slow for a second then back to normal.

[SilentHorizon]

do you have backups or antivirus scans running in the background? Do you have a lot of uneeded software?

[ColOfPopcorn]

No antivirus scans and such. But I probally have some viruses. Im just really really paranoid about that stuff because I hate downloading something that hasn't been verified by a friend as good.

[SilentHorizon]

If you think you do, then download Malwarebytes antimalware free edition and do a scan.

Malwarebytes is the best antimalware scanner I've ever seen! It doesn't miss anything.

[ColOfPopcorn]

Link please?

[SilentHorizon]

http://www.malwarebytes.org/free/

[ColOfPopcorn]

thanks!

[SilentHorizon]

Np. Were there any viruses?

[ColOfPopcorn]

Said 140threats put into quarantine

Then told me utorrent was bad so I deleted that.

[Azza ☠]

Careful with using any torrent software - they share an area or your entire hard drive (when infected) to the outside world to leech, plus you can download many viruses/trojans packed in with what others share. It's a virus breeding ground. Also torrents open up your firewall for easy hacking and DOS attacks. If you do use it, keep it under lock down with a firewall, quality up-to-date virus scanner, and only download from trusted sources.

I would highly suggest you actually purchase some security software:

Kaspersky Internet Security 2014

This is an anti-virus scanner, firewall, script detector, vulnerability detector and has application control. Actually go purchase it from the stores or carefully from the offical site (if your system is fully clean).

If you don't wish to purchase, don't use any cracked or unoffical software, as that will be worst than having none at all - 99% possibly infected.

Be very careful when selecting your secure software and ensure it comes from the offical sites.

Recommend: AVG Free ( free.avg.com ) with MalwareBytes (what you just used), Spybot - Search & Destroy 2 (free), or Lavasoft AdAware (free) as manually run freebees.

[SilentHorizon]

Цитата допису Azza ☠:

Careful with using any torrent software - they share an area or your entire hard drive (when infected) to the outside world to leech, plus you can download many viruses/trojans packed in with what others share. It's a virus breeding ground. Also torrents open up your firewall for easy hacking and DOS attacks. If you do use it, keep it under lock down with a firewall and only download from trusted sources.

I would highly suggest you actually purchase some security software:

Kaspersky Internet Security 2014

This is an anti-virus scanner, firewall, script detector, vulnerability detector and has application control. Actually go purchase it from the stores or carefully from the offical site (if your system is fully clean).

If you don't wish to purchase, don't use any cracked or unoffical software, as that will be worst than having none at all - 99% possibly infected.

Be very careful when selecting your secure software and ensure it comes from the offical sites.

Recommend: AVG Free ( free.avg.com ) with MalwareBytes (what you just used), Spybot - Search & Destroy 2 (free), or Lavasoft AdAware (free) as manually run freebees.

This^

I highly recommend purchasing webroot antivirus or internet security versions. I have been using webroot for years and it is by far the best antivirus i've used. The best thing about it is it has a extremely extremely small footprint on your pc. Making your pc just as fast as if it didn't have a antivirus.

[Azza ☠]

I've never actually used WebRoot before, but heard quite a few like it and it has a very good small footprint.

The detection rate is great too, however it does have a lower clean up on unknown malware - in which case it even provides you an option of remote access with one of their own service techs for a few hours to manually look over your PC! Probably rarely occur, but interested to know what's peoples reaction for that. I guess if you don't mind and they have a good privacy restriction - saves you actually taking the PC to a tech, if you can't clean it yourself? Most of the time, it will probably automatically just clean it (just referring to the extreme infections).

[SilentHorizon]

Webroot is great, at blocking incoming security threats. But I at one time did have an issue where it didn't pick up all the viruses on a malware scan. That is why i always use malwarebytes in conjunction with Webroot. I believe they fix that problem though.