I will start with telling you what is going wrong.
About a week ago my laptop was overheating while playing games and hasn’t done so before. So I checked that my fan still spins and it does. I also checked the thermal compound on my cpu and it looks fine. So I ran a couple scans with a variety of anti viruses (including AVG Free, Malwarebytes, Spybot S&D, MSE ) and each of them found separate malware and other malicious software. Most of them were removed. But my computer was still overheating. So I knew I need some bigger guns and that’s when I went for avast!. I ran the “repair utility”? The one you can boot from on a cd or usb stick. So I ran that and cleared out a whole bunch malicious files. I did some tests and it was still overheating, but it took about 20 min longer on a medium load to overheat. I tried running the boot time scan on multiple occasions but it overheats 2% from finishing(when it is scanning my program files). So I am asking, what should I do? I will list my systems specs below. Any help would be much appreciated.
[*]Close any open browsers
[*]Temporarily disable your AntiVirus program. (If necessary)
If you are unsure how to do this please read this or this Instruction.
[*]Double click on zoek.exe to run the tool . Please wait while the tool does not start…
[*]Copy the text present inside the code box below and paste it into the large window in the zoek tool:
Note: You need to run the version compatibale with your system. If you are not sure which version applies to your system download both of them and try to run them.
Only one of them will run on your system, that will be the right version.
[*]Double-click to run it. When the tool opens click Yes to disclaimer.
[*]Under Optional Scan ensure “List BCD” and “Driver MD5” are ticked.
[*]Press Scan button.
[*]It will make a log (FRST.txt) in the same directory the tool is run. Please attach it to your reply.
[*]The first time the tool is run, it makes also another log (Addition.txt). Please attach it to your reply.
It is a laptop. It never use to overheat. And like I said in original post fan works fine(forgot to mention that fan is clean) and the thermal compound is fine. So I might try a reformat and see if that helps at all.
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Purge System Restore [/i]
Click Run button and wait a few seconds for the programme completes his work.
At this point all the tools we used here should be gone. Tool will create an report for you (C:[b]DelFix.txt[/b])
The tool will also record healthy state of registry and make a backup using ERUNT program in %windir%\ERUNT\DelFix
Tool deletes old system restore points and create a fresh system restore point after cleaning.