![]() ![]() ![]() A Notepad document should open automatically called checkup.txt please post the contents of that document.Follow the onscreen instructions inside of the black box. ![]() If someone can help, that would be great! I am running Windows 8.1ĭownload Security Check from here or here and save it to your Desktop. I may be paranoid.but this is very strange to me! It says that "windows defender and Bitdefender is disabled", although it appears that both of these are indeed running- I am not sure if this is true. After struggling I did manage to screencapture the message as a video and then read it. At the taskbar bottom right, there is a little popup notification that appears- it lasts for literally one frame every minute and is impossible to read. The problem now is I am not 100% sure that my computer is clean from infection. I restarted and re-ran the scan, the issues seemed resolved. I then did a scan with Malwarebytes, and it identified around 8 issues (one of which was listed as a trojan, and 7 listed "PUPs"). It identified 4 issues which were resolved. I then uninstalled Avast, and installed Bitdefender Antivirus free edition and ran a deep scan. I foolishly shift-deleted this file (tired and not thinking straight!). I am 99.9% certain I did not create this file-very suspiscious. It was tiled something along the lines of "Play video games". Just yesterday I noticed a strange file on the desktop, size 0 bytes (it was associated VLC media player by icon, not sure of the extension). I had scanned the computer using Avast and Spybot search and destroy, nothing showed up.īecause the lag was unbearable I had disabled Avast and have used the computer for around the last 3 weeks. It seemed the problem was related to Avast - when I disabled it, the lag disappeared along with the 'bad data' error. On a second attempt the program would start. On top of this, when I tried to run some programs I would occasionally receive an error "the stub received bad data". Over the last 6 months my computer has been running slower and slower, (it used to take about 30 seconds to startup a year ago, but recently it was taking up to 5-8 minutes, and it continued to lag badly even after this. I had been using Avast antivirus free version up until yesterday. I found this great website and hope someone can help with some strange behavior I have been having with my laptop. ![]()
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