A Computer problem

[Empireoftheatom48]

A very strange thing happened to my computer. The other day I was booting up and received a message that my C drive was almost full. I checked it and it was. So I went to system tools and ran disk clean up. This freed up about 3 gigs. I also noticed that there was a game on the disk, I removed it. Then I started looking at my d drive and decided to prune it as well. I got to a game I had and went to remove it it was taking a long time so I went to do something else. Well I came back a few hours later. I noticed that the window was open so I clicked it off. I went back to "my computer" and looked on the c drive to see the pie graph to see how much I had removed. Next I went to D. To my horror it was empty. I did system restore and was able to get some things back and used some other software programs to retrieve other things. The other strange thing that is happening is that on my browser I try to click on FOX news and keep getting a buffer full error message, several other conservative sites will load and then promptly disapear. This happens on Firefox. However, if I go to IE this does not happen? The other thing I have noticed is that my computer has slowed way down. I assume it's I virus, but I ran my program and it did not pick any thing up? I'm not a computer whiz. Should I go back and do a full system recovery? Any ideas would be welcome. Thanks

[cartan]

My solution would be: Backup any important files, then format all drives and reinstall everything.

[vigilante2]

what operating system and how big is your hard drive?

[Uri’el-2012]

my d drive

Must be Bill Gates: "We need more the Illegal Aliens "

[HangThemHigh]

"My solution would be: Backup any important files, then format all drives and reinstall everything."

Painful, but probably a good idea. You might think about adding a bigger hard drive at the same time, and delay reformatting the other drives to see what else you can retrieve.

[cartan]

Yes, that's certainly an even better strategy!

[vigilante2]

With a little patience it can be fixed, but he didn't come back for anymore advice

[HangThemHigh]

You are probably correct, but he said he had tried several methods to recover his data. That often only makes matters worse. And he needed the bigger hard drive in any case.

[vigilante2]

I suppose it's possible that if somebody installed the contents of the game onto the D: drive instead of a folder of it's own, the D: drive then becomes the folder for the game..The uninstaller will delete everything in the game folder and that would explain why everything else on the D: drive was missing

Firefox will update regularly on it's own..older versions of windows won't know what to do with the newer programs so the updates could cause problems as well..

No doubt there could be malware on there..The anti virus software doesn't detect all malware or new viruses if it doesn't know about them yet