Why would a Trojan/Virus make an overclock unstable

Reality|Bites · 31 Oct 2009 at 11:41

I was running super antispyware when My system froze hard, the reset button wouldn't even work. So I rebooted and tried again with the same result. So after another reboot I started watching a film and that froze after a while. So I thought my overclock had become unstable so I reset to defaults to test.

So back at stock settings I was able to run super antispyware again which found two trojans on my system and got rid of them. I rebooted and ran the test again where it found nothing.

So I set up my overclock again and it's all stable again.

This is on a day old install of Windows 7 btw.

What happened?

Geckovich · 31 Oct 2009 at 13:03

I don't know what may have caused the lock, but how do you manage to get 2 trojans on a day old install? That's impressive.

Temi_D · 31 Oct 2009 at 13:25

maybe you just need to lower your overclock a bit?

Zenduri · 31 Oct 2009 at 13:38

Browsing porn on a new rig = bad, this is what happens

Temi_D · 31 Oct 2009 at 14:28

demonfatality · 31 Oct 2009 at 14:29

lol.....<<<<<runs off to run avast and spybot

ETNiES · 31 Oct 2009 at 15:43

Stop downloading teen.jpg.exe files.

xGaffner · 31 Oct 2009 at 16:08

ETNiES said:
Stop downloading teen.jpg.exe files.

This lmao