Help: new pc impossibly slow

[eos1]

I work in IT, and I've seen dozens of PC's running Norton that still managed to get infected with really nasty viruses, and all Norton did was relieve them of a few pounds , slow the PC down and offer a false sense of security.

You should remove Norton ASAP and try something else. AVG, Avast, Malware Bytes, Kerio firewall, zonealarm are all decent products.

Try netstat -a in a command window to see what is running.

You may need to do a full format and reinstall windows to get rid of certain viruses.

 

[PsiFox]

I work in IT, and I've seen dozens of PC's running Norton that still managed to get infected with really nasty viruses, and all Norton did was relieve them of a few pounds , slow the PC down and offer a false sense of security.

You should remove Norton ASAP and try something else. AVG, Avast, Malware Bytes, Kerio firewall, zonealarm are all decent products.

Try netstat -a in a command window to see what is running.

You may need to do a full format and reinstall windows to get rid of certain viruses.

Any machine running any security software can get infected if the user is stupid enough.

It's just more bashing and I don't know anyone in I.T. that reccomends AVG and I've been in it since the 1980's

A PC Pro extract from an AVG review

There’s no escaping the fact that commercial packages do more, and some – such as the A-Listed Norton Internet Security 2010 – achieve higher malware detection rates than AVG. The free version of Avira's suite also detected 4% more malware than AVG when pitted against the same sample set.

It was quite complimentary about AVG in other areas.

Bottom line though is Norton does not slow down a pc more than many other security suites.

 

[steve_lyt]

magazines are hardly likely to condemn a product , that buys advert space are they

Cheers Steve

 

[LemmingLover]

staying with relatives in Lommel - not so far away
if you want to PM your contact details I'll see if we're free for an hour!
scheduled to be passing through Friday afternoon, back Sunday morning

So did you go round there and fix this? Do tell

 

[Amp34]

That so called wasted 10gb of space has saved many a computer newbies life, theres nothing wrong with taking it back to a fresh factory install then using decrapifier again, surely much easier than a total clean install and faffing about with drivers, buggering the whole loit up besuase youve loaded the drivers in the wrong sequence.

Yes i know a format, fresh install and then drive clone is simple but not to everyone it isnt.

Drivers? Last time I installed drivers on a fresh install was the first year of the release of Vista x64 (as so many manus didn't have proper x64 drivers out). Windows nicely does it for you now. Reinstall from a windows disk and go from there, much easier than using the restore partition and faffing around with decrapifyer.

 

[Ellekes]

So did you go round there and fix this? Do tell

Well, indeed Mike and his wife stopped by on Saturday morning and he solved the issue. It turned out some bright teacher had taught me to shoot in RAW, upload all pictures using Lightroom, Export them to TIF files and then start my editing on TIF's. Mike kindly pointed out that I would save 1) a lot of diskspace and 2) a lot of time by working straight of the RAW files and saving them as psd's.

Ah, well and the issue was solved!!!!!!