- Mar 16, 2015
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Hi, sorry if this is the wrong subforum.
last night I visited a questionable site and decided to run a scan using windows defender.
The scan found nothing, but I wasn't satisfied so I downloaded avast free.
I thought I turned defender off ( I know not to run two antivirus software at once.) but it was not off when I checked later. I ran a scan with Avast and it also found nothing so i was satisifed, however during the scan a pop up message came up trying to download dropbox. I was not impressed by avast's pushing other software on my laptop so I clicked cancel and some message about administrator capabilities came up(I forget what it said). Then after denying dropbox access I uninstalled Avast, and restarted my laptop. The laptop took about 5 minutes to boot up after that(it normally only takes 30 seconds) and in my opinion ran slower when I tested it in games (It may be my imagination but I don't think so.) Did I do anything do damage my laptop?
last night I visited a questionable site and decided to run a scan using windows defender.
The scan found nothing, but I wasn't satisfied so I downloaded avast free.
I thought I turned defender off ( I know not to run two antivirus software at once.) but it was not off when I checked later. I ran a scan with Avast and it also found nothing so i was satisifed, however during the scan a pop up message came up trying to download dropbox. I was not impressed by avast's pushing other software on my laptop so I clicked cancel and some message about administrator capabilities came up(I forget what it said). Then after denying dropbox access I uninstalled Avast, and restarted my laptop. The laptop took about 5 minutes to boot up after that(it normally only takes 30 seconds) and in my opinion ran slower when I tested it in games (It may be my imagination but I don't think so.) Did I do anything do damage my laptop?
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