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Max
08-13-2004, 02:55 AM
My computer is going soo slow. Naturaly I thought that it was spyware.
so i bought programs that would get rid of it.I did the scan and nothing happened. So then i went out and bought norton antivirus which was 50$... And still nothing. Any suggestions???

Shoeberto
08-13-2004, 03:02 AM
Did you use Spybot Search and Destroy and Adaware?

Carnage
08-13-2004, 03:03 AM
Get rid of all your porn. Worked for me.

Max
08-13-2004, 03:08 AM
Yes I used them both.

crono_logical
08-13-2004, 10:09 AM
A full reformat and reinstall will do the trick if this is Windows. :D

Buying Norton if anything will make it even slower, since you're adding yet another program onto the system to be running at the same time as everything else :p

Max
08-16-2004, 11:31 PM
I did the quick restore and it was working fine. But after I installed norton I got slow again! SO it has to be norton. But since my dad knows NOTHING about Computers he wont let me uninstall it. sigh...

o_O
08-17-2004, 10:19 AM
You could disable realtime file scanning. I don't know what it's called in Norton, since I only install and run a virus scanner every few months, but surely if your dad knows nothing about computers, he won't know that you've effectively shut down Norton's main CPU/RAM-consuming process? :p

Baloki
08-17-2004, 11:34 AM
Make sure bloodhound isn't running on Norton, it consumes so much f-ing ram and does nothing...

Max
08-17-2004, 04:27 PM
It's probobly going slow because im running norton on a 64mg Ram Computer.

Lost Heretic
08-19-2004, 07:41 PM
It could be the lack of RAM.

What OS are you using?

What is your resolution and color quality?

crono_logical
08-19-2004, 08:56 PM
Screen Resolution has little effect on memory these days unless you have a really old crappy video card, since all that's handled by the video card's own VRAM instead now.