What's your process for cleaning up your pc when it runs slow? I've run scans from two different anti viruses (Avira and avast) and tried malware scanning with anti malwarebytes but am still seeing sluggish performance.
Bonus question: what Antivirus are you guys running? avast is starting to get annoying with all its ads for premium service
dban + fresh install of gentoo
>>54965592
Common sense and Bitdefender
>>54965592
Do a fresh reinstall, don't waste time with that shit
>>54965618
Which one? I'm running common sense 2012. Should I upgrade?
>>54965642
2016 edition. I got it in January just to be sure
Wipe, reinstall.
For anyone else's computer, I just run ccleaner, defraggler, and disable any unused startup entries.
MalwareBytes AntiMalware as well, just in case.
>>54965592
>What's your process for cleaning up your pc when it runs slow?
Restore to last week's snapshot.
also
>when it runs slow?
just buy an SSD.
If you're seeing sluggish performance and can't find either a) a ton of junk on your hard drive or b) malware, the slowness of your computer is down to background processes and services. Watch your task manager and see which programs are sucking up resources. I wouldn't be surprised if it's your antivirus software itself.
On Windows, I use Comodo. They offer their premium service but (at least for now) respect your choice to say no and hide that box permanently. It helps that I don't download anything unless I know what it is and that it comes from an official source.
>>54965592
If you look in the settings you can turn off the ads on avast.
