saw the article on yahoo. anyone know if it's real?

saw the article on yahoo. anyone know if it's real?

saw the article on yahoo. anyone know if it's real?

SuperAntiSpyware is only an antispyware software.
There are a lot of other classifications of malware besides spyware.
That software does not protect against Viruses and a ton of other malware.

How most anti-virus/spyware/malware works is by a file containing hundreds of thousands of signature but even so, it doesn't contain everything which is why you need software from different companies to make up for what the other doesn't have.

ThreatFire is a zero-day protection that detects malicious software behavior rather than relies on signitures but whether it detects a virus or harmless behavior will be up to the computer owner because the software doesn't know.

What I suggest you do now is download AVAST and MalwareBytes Anti-Malware. Both are free and very good. (That is, if you ONLY have SuperAntiSpyware which is sorely lacking in the grand scheme of malware)

SuperAntiSpyware is only an antispyware software.
There are a lot of other classifications of malware besides spyware.
That software does not protect against Viruses and a ton of other malware.

How most anti-virus/spyware/malware works is by a file containing hundreds of thousands of signature but even so, it doesn't contain everything which is why you need software from different companies to make up for what the other doesn't have.

ThreatFire is a zero-day protection that detects malicious software behavior rather than relies on signitures but whether it detects a virus or harmless behavior will be up to the computer owner because the software doesn't know.

What I suggest you do now is download AVAST and MalwareBytes Anti-Malware. Both are free and very good. (That is, if you ONLY have SuperAntiSpyware which is sorely lacking in the grand scheme of malware)

Here's a free, spyware free, fast utility that will tell you the health of your hard drive. Just install and in seconds it will give a health percentage of your drive

Acronis Drive Monitor
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/drive-monitor/


Let me know what percentage the program says the health of your hard drive is and how many days of use

Good luck!

Tell me more about the characteristics of the slowing.
You said the pages won't reload and it won't save passwords, but that's aspects of the internet speed, not your computer.

If only the internet is slow, then there's nothing we can do. It means your service provider is having trouble with their servers. You'll just have to wait it out.

oh, your other computers are fast....then it's not the internet.
If it's a virus avg can't pick up, I suggest threatfire. Threatfire is a little more advanced. It will tell you when something seems weird, but it'll be up to your better judgement to determine if it's good or bad.

You can try avast, but not all 3 combined. 1.5gb of ram won't be able to handle that much.
AVG is a really good antivirus, so if they didn't pick anything up, AVAST probably won't either.

My biggest goal is to research/cure aging and cancer so that I can spend more time researching the universe.

Keep both SuperAntiSpyware and AVG then,
download ThreatFire and yeah it's free.

It has helped me stop some unknown viruses a while back.

Many of these errors can occur with general computer usage. Uninstalling applications, applying updates, and sometimes manual changes to some Windows components can cause these problems to surface.

Threatfire is a little more advanced. It will tell you when something seems weird, but it'll be up to your better judgement to determine if it's good or bad.

oh crap. You're suddenly not ALLOWED download anything?
This is almost 100% the symptom of a Virus.

Can you not download any software or does this pertain to utilities only?

If it's a virus that isn't being picked up by your antivirus and you can't download a different antivirus, then it's going to get complicated. I'd need to see what's going on to help.

ThreatFire doesn't have a scanner. It acts more like a firewall. It monitors programs that run or are running in memory rather than search through the entire hard drive.
A virus program can only directly slow down your computer when it's in memory.

It probably won't catch anything. Antispware/antiviruses don't make mistakes. Make sure the database is updated.

IF it really is a virus, then the only way to get rid of it is to download a different antivirus program (which you can't since it won't let you) or remove it manually which requires trial and error and is hard without doing it myself.