Computer was running slower than usual early this evening…was in the middle of running a malwarebytes scan which had found 9 infected items.
Laptop freezes in the middle of the scan so I shut off manually. Upon restart my icons come up on my desktop and then I get a blue screen saying something about automatic restart…possible low memory…press F8 to interrupt and start in safe mode and it auto restarts itself.
Any thoughts? I suck with computers but I follow directions good.
Important documents on there? Anything you’d like to keep?
It told you, you are low on virtual memory?
It’s all greek to me…it was working fine
Everything on there is important…its my work laptop
you have backups right?
Back everything up NOW.
This happened to me and a week later and my laptops HD took a shit.
and the Laptop was only 3 months old.
Thumb drive backup FTW
fixed
Does the HD sound like it’s making abnormal noises like a clunking noise or a really loud click?
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It was fine…no abnormal anything…took it over to Andy’s and he said its got something boogered up pretty bad.
I have to ask my company if they have a system restore disk…I was able to get most of the important relevant work stuff off.
Still blows tho.
Did you happen to get any notices about Anti-virus 2009? It’s basically malware that starts taking control of your computer. I’ve had a lot of clients who have had it and it can get to a point where you try to download anti-spyware and it actually redirects your web address to keep you from those sites. It can also prevent malwarebytes from running…though I’ve never heard of it shutting down a PC in the middle of a scan…
Other then the computer running slow, what else happend?
To clean up your PC, you can go to www.ccleaner.com and download and run that program. When you open the program run cleaner and then scan the registry and clean up those items. Run it a few times until it’s down to zero. Then run a quick scan on malwarebytes if it lets you. This should get rid of a lot of spyware BS.
You may also have a lot of shit running on start up that is taking up Virtual memory. If you’re on XP, Go to start, run and then type msconfig (on vista you can just type msconfig and hit enter under start --> search). From there click on the start up tab and uncheck the selected programs that are set to start when you turn on the laptop.
Do the basics of running a disc clean up and then defragment. Reboot again and see where you’re at…
Thanks Jon,
I had itagaki look at it and mess around with it for a few hours tonight and its more problematic. He got it to last long enough to get some of my work files off but he said it is pretty much a loss at this point.
always back up files…Especially for work