It has a very poor performance and it seems like it is infected (unfortunately I have AVG in that PC) though the AV doesn’t detect anything. I keep that PC clean and I even downloaded a boost-performance program (trial 30 days version) to make it a bit faster. But even with all these cares, it is a sloppy and clunky PC. It behaves just like a zombie-PC (full of virus and worms maybe? Who knows). I read about the symptoms of win32: malware-gen and it seems like that it’s been infected by that. Moreover I read that AVG cannot detect that virus (well not sure if that’s true). My question is: to format or not to format?
Thank you for helping me taking the best decision.
The machine should be around 3 years old. It’s a Vista system. I don’t know if it is actually infected (well AVG says all right) but I suspect it since it had and still have the typical infection symptoms. Unfortunately I cannot answer your other two questions (sorry I’m a PC newbie).
You need to either restore the factory recovery partition if it has one :-\ or get yourself a windows disc/download windows vista iso from net and burn to disc.
Besides Linux Mint similarity with Windows, you can try other Ubuntu flavor called Kubuntu. The K is for KDE environment. You will think you’re on Windows
Could you make a list of things to do when formatting? e.g.finding a new operator system (sorry if it may seem a kind of paranoia)
Thank you for the help and your patience.
May I suggest that you start to use Google or another search function to do a little research on your own.
The best way to learn is to do something on your own. It’s only when you get stuck, that you should be looking for help.