Now I'm usually a very safe person and haven't had any sort of dangerous or major virus in years, but the last couple of days have been a complete nightmare!
First of all, I experienced issues with some malware (Win32:Malware-gen) that had lodged itself in my windows/temp folder and was basically duplicating every few minutes once avast had detected it and quarantined/deleted it. I eventually managed to get rid of this by running a boot scan with avast.
However once this had been dealt with I am now facing problems with something else which I can't put my finger on. I know it's some sort of virus as the computer is running very slow and even freezes when i right click on the desktop! Also, when I start up in safe mode the computer seems to be fine and is nice and responsive.
I also forgot to mention that whatever virus my PC is infected with has also managed to disable the windows security centre and it wont let me re-enable this at all.
I have tried various things such as running in safe mode and then doing scans and have also tried various different programs to try and detect whatever is causing this.
I'm a relative novice in dealing with viruses/malware so if anyone could give me any advice on what else I could try to get my PC back up and running it would be greatly appreciated!
First of all, I experienced issues with some malware (Win32:Malware-gen) that had lodged itself in my windows/temp folder and was basically duplicating every few minutes once avast had detected it and quarantined/deleted it. I eventually managed to get rid of this by running a boot scan with avast.
However once this had been dealt with I am now facing problems with something else which I can't put my finger on. I know it's some sort of virus as the computer is running very slow and even freezes when i right click on the desktop! Also, when I start up in safe mode the computer seems to be fine and is nice and responsive.
I also forgot to mention that whatever virus my PC is infected with has also managed to disable the windows security centre and it wont let me re-enable this at all.
I have tried various things such as running in safe mode and then doing scans and have also tried various different programs to try and detect whatever is causing this.
I'm a relative novice in dealing with viruses/malware so if anyone could give me any advice on what else I could try to get my PC back up and running it would be greatly appreciated!
