Hi
Yesterday I clicked on a seemingly fine looking website and my anti-virus came up with a message saying it had blocked it due to malvertising. I closed the tab as soon as the anti-virus message popped up. I didn’t click anything on the webpage, the site hadn’t even fully loaded.
I ran scans on my anti-virus, anti-spyware and anti-malware programs and they have said all clear, no issues.
I then cleared browser history/cache/cookies.
This morning I did have quite a few tabs open and it was fine for a while, then my browser suddenly closed. I re-opened it, restored the tabs and it was alright for a short while. It then went slow. I switched to another browser and that was really slow, then my computer froze.
Ctrl+alt+delete didn’t do anything and I ended up pressing the power button on my desktop.
I restarted my desktop and I have left my Internet off for now, but my desktop seems to be running smooth and as fast as normal again at the moment.
Looking at task manager, it is showing seemingly high RAM use (3.3GB, 328mb compressed, 4.5GB available and nothing open but the task manager), but then I noticed ages ago that seemed high and my laptop shows similar (5.1GB, 263mb compressed, 2.7GB available and just Word and a browser with 2 tabs running).
The CPU is mostly flickering between 1% and 3%, hard drives are 0% mostly. One occasionally flickers up a few percent.
I can’t see anything obviously suspicious running, but Windows does have many background things that run and I don’t know what they all are.
My desktop is a few years old, probably not as fast as it was, and clearing browser history can make pages slower and more tabs open slows things down (although that doesn’t explain my other browser having issues).
Is the freezing likely due to malware or just a coincidence?
Is there anything else I can do to check for malware?
Thanks.
Yesterday I clicked on a seemingly fine looking website and my anti-virus came up with a message saying it had blocked it due to malvertising. I closed the tab as soon as the anti-virus message popped up. I didn’t click anything on the webpage, the site hadn’t even fully loaded.
I ran scans on my anti-virus, anti-spyware and anti-malware programs and they have said all clear, no issues.
I then cleared browser history/cache/cookies.
This morning I did have quite a few tabs open and it was fine for a while, then my browser suddenly closed. I re-opened it, restored the tabs and it was alright for a short while. It then went slow. I switched to another browser and that was really slow, then my computer froze.
Ctrl+alt+delete didn’t do anything and I ended up pressing the power button on my desktop.
I restarted my desktop and I have left my Internet off for now, but my desktop seems to be running smooth and as fast as normal again at the moment.
Looking at task manager, it is showing seemingly high RAM use (3.3GB, 328mb compressed, 4.5GB available and nothing open but the task manager), but then I noticed ages ago that seemed high and my laptop shows similar (5.1GB, 263mb compressed, 2.7GB available and just Word and a browser with 2 tabs running).
The CPU is mostly flickering between 1% and 3%, hard drives are 0% mostly. One occasionally flickers up a few percent.
I can’t see anything obviously suspicious running, but Windows does have many background things that run and I don’t know what they all are.
My desktop is a few years old, probably not as fast as it was, and clearing browser history can make pages slower and more tabs open slows things down (although that doesn’t explain my other browser having issues).
Is the freezing likely due to malware or just a coincidence?
Is there anything else I can do to check for malware?
Thanks.
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