Do you mean it becomes unresponsive, or programs close by themselves? Does it freeze on whatever screen is up at the time? You say you still have the mouse. Can you right-click the bottom task bar when this happens and open task manager: find out what process is using most of the CPU?
If the above isn’t accurate, describe more accurately what it’s doing.
When i start the computer it starts normally, but after I trying to open something from or copy to the 300 GB hard drive (simply click on its icon from the “My computer”, the computer immediately crashes (unresponding). Also when i want to open the Recycle bin, this happens (maybe the recycle bin opens the 300 GB hard drive too). And sometimes crashes suddenly.
BUT when I turn off one of the parmanent protections, and try to use the 300 GB hard drive, and re-enable protection, it works correctly until the next computer restart.
The another problem is that when avast found a threat on the flash drive, the browsers (IE and Firefox) become very slow until the next computer restart, even the flash drive was removed.
At school when I put my pen drive to the pc (ram half 512mb and OS windows Xp SP2)
Well sometimes it can open properly and sometimes it freezes when “my computer” is opened
When I close “my computer”, crash…everything is gone on the screen except wallpaper and cursor.
What I do is that I remove the pen drive (Without doing safely remove might lose data) and the screen returns to normal again…
No the hard disk isn’t slow without Avast, but when Avast is turned on (after the permanent protection switched off and after switched on), writing to the hard drive is slow (halting). The HDD isn’t overloaded (245 GB free)
So the 300G hard drive is an external hard drive, then.
I recommend you try the MBAM program linked to in reply 18, first on your own computer. Run a quick scan. Have it remove anything found.
If anything was found, run a second, full scan. Remove anything found.
Reboot immediately if prompted.
Then, plug the external drive in and scan that.
Mostly, Avast can, when it is detected.
MBAM is more aimed at trojans and rogues, and has a very good reputation as a demand (or resident) second scanner.
Try it.
Update it after installation. Updates are typically ~5Megs.