How come after I do a virus clean up, my browser’s download speed decreases dramatically?
Posted on January 26th, 2010 by admin
After I delete the trojans and spyware, and reboot, once I download something, the download time is unbearably slow compared to before. I don’t know what is going on, what can I do so that my download speed goes back to being as fast as it did?
Your virus cleaner might be cleaning off cookies and cached internet files, so your browser has to reload entire pages rather than refreshing them from the cache on your hard drive.
OR
It might be checking all of your downloads actively before letting them display.
OR
It might have closed some ports or forbidden some file types commonly used by the browser before.
It could be a lot of things. Look at your toolbar to see some processes that are going. Push control ALT DELETE to view the processes in greater detail and figure out what is taking up so much CPU cycles.
Good luck.
January 26th, 2010 at 8:50 am
Hard to say. I’d say some software on your computer is up to something.
Do you use a reputable virus scanner, or is it one of those ones you see in adds, like "registry dumper 9001 extreme edition"?
In any case, you can monitor what programs are doing on your computer internet wise by downloading TCPView ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx ). Look at this to determine if there are any processes with "established" links. If there are, then figure out what they’re up to, and if theyre things you know about.
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January 26th, 2010 at 9:30 am
Download "Advanced System Care" for free from Cnet.com. Will get rid of all unwanted files, adware, junk files. Works great will have your computer running very fast
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January 26th, 2010 at 9:55 am
It sounds to be that your antivirus is taking off more than it should. It would help if I knew what antivirus you’re using?
Also, make sure it’s still not running at the bottom right hand corner where the icons are.
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January 26th, 2010 at 10:20 am
Your virus cleaner might be cleaning off cookies and cached internet files, so your browser has to reload entire pages rather than refreshing them from the cache on your hard drive.
OR
It might be checking all of your downloads actively before letting them display.
OR
It might have closed some ports or forbidden some file types commonly used by the browser before.
It could be a lot of things. Look at your toolbar to see some processes that are going. Push control ALT DELETE to view the processes in greater detail and figure out what is taking up so much CPU cycles.
Good luck.
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