Posted on 02/25/2012 9:46:12 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj
I've had more and more difficulties with accessing webpages (serious slowdown and pages freezing up) along with rapid bumping-off of being logged in to different websites (such as IMDb, eBay, etc.), for which I should be permanently logged in (or at least in eBay's case, for 24 hours). I go through maybe 5-10 pages or less and I get inexplicably knocked off. Again, it's not localized to just a few websites, but across the board. This computer is less than 2 years old, doesn't have a lot of memory used (or junk cluttering the system).
I have Kaspersky anti-virus and ran a scan, but it shows no viruses. I did a defrag and it was no help, and also a checkdisk scan at start-up, and that also did nothing to improve the situation.
Any ideas as to what is wrong with my computer ? I am stumped. Thanks.
Have seen that with XP when something is eating up a bunch of processor time or memory problems.
I am assuming you're running Win 7 since you said the machine is less than 2 years old.
Someone hacked into ours, so we pulled the plug on it for a few days and they went away.
If you’re on cable, I suggest having your modem replaced Monday morning. They only have a lifetime of 5 years, most of the time less.
Do you use passwords and high security settings?
I second your suggestion.
See if COMCAST has a support section on their website. If they do see if it has Known Issues or simular name and click on it. The problem could be on their end as easilly as yours. If you got the same frontal system we did the winds been murder the past 24 hours or more here. Most services have a section where they post any known service issues on their end.
I don’t use wi-fi but I got a router with the n, not the g technology and used it for a couple of weeks (will be using it later).
I tried to follow directions the first time and get as much security as I could in my set up, but it took me a couple of more efforts to really max it out, I had to google the issue, reread things a few times, but then I think I finally nailed it.
I taped my complicated password and information to the router itself, and to my screen.
My impression is that is as good as it can be according to my research on the internet.
http://customer.comcast.com/help-and-support/internet/ Try this site. Up in the blue tabs at the top is Alerts. I can’t check for you because I do not have Comcast and it requires user log in.
Husband said whatever browser you are using, clear cache and cookies.
The router isn’t old, either. I use Internet Explorer 9.
Yes, Windows 7. The prior computer I used was XP and something started inexplicably eating up nearly all the memory. Took it for repairs and they said it wasn’t worth bothering with.
It’s possible. I’ve just got to rule out a virus. I’m an hour and a half into the Malwarebytes scan and it hasn’t found anything yet.
The modem was replaced just a few months ago.
I need to rule out the possibility of a virus, which is what I personally think it is. The situation has been worsening over the past month and appears exclusive to browsing (not weather related).
LOL, fun isn't it? As a guy who uses the computers that others discard for these reasons, I have spent days scanning before I can turn it into a usable/safe computer.
On my wife's Win 7 machine, it doesn't take more than 45 minutes to run a full scan.
It's a i7 quad core laptop with 6Gb of memory.
Do you know if you have an i3, i5, or i7 processor?
I'm just suspicious of the time it's taking to run the scan.
I don’t know what the processor is off the top of my head, but I know I don’t have 6Gb of memory. The scan is now at 2 hours, but it probably is running slowly. You can easily read out each individual part of the system it’s scanning. The Kaspersky ordinarily takes several hours to run as well. On the old computer, the last scan I ran with Webroot, it went over 13 hours.
I have a stupid question. Do you have any other programs running right now while scanning such as Windows media player or along that line?
Other than this window and a game of Solitaire, no.
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