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Hello All,
I was advised earlier that I may have to format my hard drive and I may just do that. In January, I made the mistake of letting a scammer
control my computer and I think he may have installed something to mess up my maintenance programs.
The longest running program is Smart Defrag 6 Pro. I just turned it off as it showed that the time remaining to defrag is more then 2 hours.
This program was started the day before and I let it finish and it ran close to 2 hours or more.
My McAfee Live Safe virus program runs about 45 minutes to an hour.
I also run CCleaner and I also clean the Registry about once a week. This program only takes about a minute or less.
Years ago, my maintenance programs did not run as long as above but sometime in 2018, I noticed an increase in time to run the first two programs.
This is what got me perplexed. My hard drive contains 50 gb out of 914 available and the ram is 8192 mb.
So if you believe something is wrong with the time it takes or is it possible a malware installation that got passed my virus program?
If the scammer did if fact install malware, is it advisable to contact my internet provider and ask for a new IP address?
I was advised earlier that I may have to format my hard drive and I may just do that. In January, I made the mistake of letting a scammer
control my computer and I think he may have installed something to mess up my maintenance programs.
The longest running program is Smart Defrag 6 Pro. I just turned it off as it showed that the time remaining to defrag is more then 2 hours.
This program was started the day before and I let it finish and it ran close to 2 hours or more.
My McAfee Live Safe virus program runs about 45 minutes to an hour.
I also run CCleaner and I also clean the Registry about once a week. This program only takes about a minute or less.
Years ago, my maintenance programs did not run as long as above but sometime in 2018, I noticed an increase in time to run the first two programs.
This is what got me perplexed. My hard drive contains 50 gb out of 914 available and the ram is 8192 mb.
So if you believe something is wrong with the time it takes or is it possible a malware installation that got passed my virus program?
If the scammer did if fact install malware, is it advisable to contact my internet provider and ask for a new IP address?