Computer Freezing, Want to Make Sure Everything Is Okay

Viruses and worms
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Hello,
Recently, my computer will go through cycles where every 10-15 minutes or so, all programs will freeze, crash, and then I’ll have to start them again. I just want to make there is no malware that could be causing this. As a matter of fact, Firefox froze and then crashed while I was typing this. Thanks again! :smiley:

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Hello,

When this started to happen?

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Recently, probably around a couple days ago. It could very well not be a malware issue, I just want to make sure it’s not.

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PC seems clean.

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Thank you for quick response. I’ll look into what could be causing the issue. Is there anything I can try in particular? I always clean temp files, junk files, scan, defrag, ect.

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You can try this:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/929833

and this:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/guide-to-using-check-disk-in-windows-vista/

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I just noticed that some programs were uninstalled and some addons were removed from Firefox… This is odd. Program uninstalled was Lightshot and addon was Ghostery. If I can find more I’ll tell you.