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Recent content by Rum Ham

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    Solved high memory usage, suspect i have malware

    Yes everything seems good now, its been some yrs since I had any general knowledge of regular computer maintenance, what antivirus to use, etc. so that is apparent when I used Total AV when I was trying to get up to speed a bit again. Thanks again for your time and help its very much...
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    Solved high memory usage, suspect i have malware

    Ok after the security check I did the autoruns again and uncheck everything highlighted, plus anything else that was a 'file not found' although there was a lot of file not founds that it gave an error and said failed to remove or something, so I left those alone. Log below of security check...
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    Solved high memory usage, suspect i have malware

    Yeah I don't think I looked at it much if at all before this thing started, but I think things look normal with CPU usage and memory, if just a tad high at this very moment with memory (30%). But its never been showing the 97%-99% usage lately that alerted me to a problem. The Avira removal...
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    Solved high memory usage, suspect i have malware

    Ok so shortly after my last post I downloaded AVIRA for an antivirus and things seemed to be working fine actually. As far as I could tell anyway. Then I went ahead and did the FRST fix and I have posted the log below. After that. I checked Defender and it indeed does allow me to run it now...
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    Solved high memory usage, suspect i have malware

    My Windows Defender will no longer turn on, I effectively have no antivirus, the last time I tried to as of this typing I got a message about IT administrator has not allowed me to use this page or something of that nature. Anyways here is the next 3 reports requested: Fix result of Farbar...
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    Solved high memory usage, suspect i have malware

    OK the AdwCleaner removed my TotalAV for some odd reason, but I can just activate it again with my account info for it, that log you requested is posted below followed by the ESET Online Scanner log. # ------------------------------- # Malwarebytes AdwCleaner 8.4.0.0 #...
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    Solved high memory usage, suspect i have malware

    Scan result of Farbar Recovery Scan Tool (FRST) (x64) Version: 30-08-2022 (ATTENTION: ====> FRST version is 35 days old and could be outdated) Ran by satch (administrator) on DESKTOP-Q1JOHSV (Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7B98) (04-10-2022 23:12:34) Running from C:\Users\satch\Downloads...
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    Solved high memory usage, suspect i have malware

    First off I kept getting notification about virus protection being off, I have paid for Total AV and every time I clicked it was on. But the notification keeps coming. But I never knew what to do, scans find nothing, nor does MalwareBytes Obvious red flag and stupid on my part but not knowing...