A poor paranoid person

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So i was using my computer most of today, from 7:30 am to 3:30pm and i noticed the memory usage was slightly higher than normal.

I also noticed, for some odd reason, Skype was using a bit of disk usage (3.mbs) and i decided to exit out of skype and run avast.

So, i run avast, and accidentally opened skype…

My computer slowed to a crawl for some reason and i’m still not sure why!

Audio completely died, no videos would load on youtube, and even unplugging and replugging my headphones didn’t fix anything.

So i shut down my computer…after 5x its normal shut down time, it finally shut down.

I started up computer, it started up a bit slow like after a reset, now everything is fine.

I’m seriously worried if my sound card or whatever is infected/my computer has something wrong with it. Even though scannow and avast deep scan haven’t revealed anything.

Am i being overly paranoid? Is it just a slight hiccup that occurs from time to time? Or do i have justification for my fears?

Sorry, i just feel rather jittery after all this.

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i noticed the memory usage was slightly higher than normal.

My computer slowed to a crawl for some reason and i’m still not sure why!


There have been some win updates lately, could it be related?

Am i being overly paranoid? Is it just a slight hiccup that occurs from time to time? Or do i have justification for my fears?
You may run some online scanner for a second opinion if paranoid

TrendMicro housecall >> http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
F-Secure >> https://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/tools-beta
ESET >> https://www.eset.com/us/online-scanner/

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What version of Win. are you running ???

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I’m running windows 10.

As for the updates, i got the updates 4 days ago…and as far as i’m aware of there isn’t any new ones

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The last preview release that works with Avast (or any other third party AV) is build 14936.
Anything beyond that isn’t working unless you’re using Defender only.
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=156141.msg1347906#msg1347906

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I am not using any insider previews. I have no idea how to even opt into that.

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and apparently firefox isn’t letting me download these online scanners…why???

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What message does it give?
maybe not compatible with firefox? see System Requirements and info

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Well what would happen is that it would say, “Downloading Housecall” and stay like that for at least 10-40 minutes until i canceled the download…

I relaunched firefox and refreshed the download and got it working now though.

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So after investing about two hours into scanning and checking, I think its safe to say my computer is fine…

I actually believe it was a triple failure for my internet, avast and skype disk usage, and skype trying to run a audio cue the second it started up.

I’m not to sure i want that to happen again though…hopefully it won’t.

Also off topic, should i invest in one stick of 8gb ram to prevent future issues?

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Sorry to bump a old topic but i officially found out why the event occured.

It wasn’t a virus or anything. It was me being dumb and apparently to quote a friend of mine.

“That was just your overhead RAM getting filled up too quickly and your computer having a conniption because of it”.

Which explains a lot to be honest. Since that day, my computer has been working at its normal derptastic performance. Yay.

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No problem in bumping an old topic, when you created and you are reporting why the problem happened and its resolution.