RedPhantom opened this issue on Feb 15, 2010 · 60 posts
ShawnDriscoll posted Wed, 17 February 2010 at 4:42 AM
Quote - Then I thought to run stuff like ccleaner and ad-aware to see if that helped. It didn't. I ran McAfee. That didn't find anything. I've also notice that psp, firefox, vue and even windows explorer run slow, even if no other programs are running. I'm still leaning towards a virus even though McAfee didn't find one. Wouldn't be the first time. Assuming McAfee is corrupted by a virus
Anti-virus programs are useless once a computer has a virus installed. Anti-virus programs are supposed to stop viruses from running. Sure, they'll clean infected files. But the damage is already done and the computer is compromised.
By the time you reverse engineer which virus you have and how to exactly remove just that one before it mutates into various forms, it would have been much quicker to just re-install the operating system (while behind a real firewall with no other computers powered up on the LAN... always).