Sunday, September 25, 2011

How Will You Tell If The Computer Has A Virus Or Maybe A Registry Issue?

By Janell Lane


Most of our laptop problems come from outside infections or internal registry errors. How will you tell if your PC's slow performance is caused by a virus or if it needs to use one of the best registry cleaners instead? The very first thing to do is check your PC's symptoms.

The usual sign of a virus is that your laptop will slow down. It's normally a change that has happen really quickly. If your Personal computer has gotten slower over a few weeks you can pretty much say it's not a virus infection.

PC speed problems are also attributable to mal-ware, spy-ware, registry issues, laptop overload, insufficient memory, etc. So saying that a personal computer has a virus because it is sluggish is not always the case. There must be more info than that, so let's look deeper.

Different signs of a virus are windows pop-up messages. It's like your own PCs operating system is calling out for help. Something is affecting the internal working of various functions. Viruses could harm the windows system and stop things from working properly, thus the pop-up messages.

Next do a quick examination of the amount of CPU being used by right clicking on the bottom tool bar or tray and choosing Task Manager. If your PC is at "idle" - not being asked to do something - does the CPU Usage fall back to under 15%? If not there is something running in the background and using up the PC's capacity. And this may be a virus.

You should also be certain that your anti-virus program are updated and let it run a complete or whole computer scan. This may take a while, perhaps even a few hours. Once the scan is complete you should be able to reach some conclusions regarding your problem.

If you are running a top quality anti-virus program in your PC and it doesn't find any infections in the entire computer scan, you probably have one of two problems, or both: 1- you've got a spy-ware / mal-ware infection that your virus program can't detect, or 2- you may have significant issues in the computer's registry.

I hope we can discuss spy-ware in a later post. As for using the best registry cleaners, they're applications that all computers ought to have for regular upkeep and performance optimization.




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