Operating on Windows 7 Ultimate: 32 Bit
The problem started a few days ago when youtube videos would start and stop. It progressively got worse until yesterday when it was taking a full hour to play out a 5 minute song.
I ran malwarebytes, ccleaner, advanced system care and then went into safe mode to run TDSSKiller and Eset online scanner.
Upon entering safemode, videos were no longer the only thing slow. Loading pages and downloading TDSSKiller was beyond slow and Eset online scanner wouldn't even download at all.
I looked around for the reason this could be and someone with a similar issue advised to download MiniToolBox to clear firefox proxy settings. I did this and finally was able to run Eset scanner. It did find one virus, cleaned it off, and everything was running smoothly until today, about an hour ago. Videos again started slowing down, and in an attempt to redo the process, I tried to update Advanced System Care only to find out that the download freezes. Something that I can download in less than a minute on my other computer is downloading with 8 minutes and climbing (it's gone up to 9, 10, 11m).
My assumption then is that firefox is corrupted or the internet itself but I haven't tested out any other browsers.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also a recommendation for a free antivirus for future reference would be very helpful (clearly since waiting until you have an infection isn't the best strategy)
The problem started a few days ago when youtube videos would start and stop. It progressively got worse until yesterday when it was taking a full hour to play out a 5 minute song.
I ran malwarebytes, ccleaner, advanced system care and then went into safe mode to run TDSSKiller and Eset online scanner.
Upon entering safemode, videos were no longer the only thing slow. Loading pages and downloading TDSSKiller was beyond slow and Eset online scanner wouldn't even download at all.
I looked around for the reason this could be and someone with a similar issue advised to download MiniToolBox to clear firefox proxy settings. I did this and finally was able to run Eset scanner. It did find one virus, cleaned it off, and everything was running smoothly until today, about an hour ago. Videos again started slowing down, and in an attempt to redo the process, I tried to update Advanced System Care only to find out that the download freezes. Something that I can download in less than a minute on my other computer is downloading with 8 minutes and climbing (it's gone up to 9, 10, 11m).
My assumption then is that firefox is corrupted or the internet itself but I haven't tested out any other browsers.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also a recommendation for a free antivirus for future reference would be very helpful (clearly since waiting until you have an infection isn't the best strategy)
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