- Oct 3, 2013
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My friend is currently having issues with his computer involving a virus that brings his computer to a near stand still. What I mean by this is when his computer boots up, it's extremely sluggish (takes ages to open chrome or any other application), he cannot play any games cause they all end up crashing 2 minutes in and when trying to install anything like nvidia drivers or team viewer, they all end up crashing half way through and he needs to ctrl+alt+del to stop the unresponsive programs. Recently he re-installed windows 7, including sp1, and downloaded malware bytes which found, if I remember correctly, roughly 72 items that were then fixed. After running another antivirus software that I cannot seem to remember, he still had problems with the computer and still can't do much on it.
Assuming that the virus is too well hidden for any program to find it, would it be logical for my friend to switch hard drives (he has nothing of value or importance on his hard drive, as he states so he is all for it if necessary)? If so, does that fully remove the virus from the computer, or can viruses somehow expand to other hardware in his build?
Assuming that the virus is too well hidden for any program to find it, would it be logical for my friend to switch hard drives (he has nothing of value or importance on his hard drive, as he states so he is all for it if necessary)? If so, does that fully remove the virus from the computer, or can viruses somehow expand to other hardware in his build?
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