Router rebooted computer slowed down

[scubasteve526]

I don't really know what happened but maybe someone else has had this happen or can help figure out what it was but I was playing a game of hearthstone when my computer became very very laggy. Everything slowed down to a crawl and audio became messed up. It would take forever to mouse across the screen and when I hit ctrl alt del it took like 30-40secs before i could get to task manager. I then heard my router make the restart noise and my computer became unlaggy and was normal again. So it seems like my router crashed and rebooted and my Pc slowed down. This has never happened before, even when the router rebooted

 

[NerdyComputerGuy]

Hi there,

Either someone may have tried to DDOS your router causing an influx of packets through your router to your computer causing your computer to slow down and your router to restart

or

There was an issue in your game where too many packets were being sent and it overwhelmed your computer and router and so the router restarted and the computer slowed down.

Are you experiencing the lag issues with your PC still or did it go away after both a PC reboot and router reboot?

Thanks,

 

[scubasteve526]

Hasn't happened before and it has only happened the one time. I don't see why someone would attack me via a ddos attack. I did notice that somehow after that happened that windows update somehow magically tunred back to auto update so maybe it was microsoft trying to force updates on me in the background? I ran a couple of scans and all i found was some Skype.exe files in my downloads which i believe were from when i tried to get an older version of skype. Malwarebytes labeled them as pup.Optioanl.InstallCore so I just got rid of them.

 

[NerdyComputerGuy]

Hi,

Download a program called CCleaner and do a scan of the system (to remove unnecessary files, this will speed up your PC)
Also run the registry scan in the program.

After that, run malware-bytes again. yeah you're finding viruses on your PC, this is good in makng sure your PC is clean.