PC Randomly Restarting - System or Malware?

BenSolo

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Jun 17, 2016
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So, recently I have been having random restarts from my pc whether it be I'm in game or browsing the interwebs. I did some research and thought that it might be from overheating, turns out my thermal paste was diminished and I replaced it and cleaned my pc of all dust with air compressed can. CPU ran about 5-6 degrees cooler at, and so did my GPU. I even ran memtest and stress test on my gpu and nothing came of that either. My pc ran fine for about a day without restarts but it did it again not too long ago. I don't know what it could be, my only thought is malware maybe? Windows defender has been notifying me to restart to remove the trojan files and I do, but it continues to queue it. What should I do? Could this been what's causing random restarts? Thank you for your help in advance.

System Specs
GTX 780 3gb Zotac
AMD FX-6300
Corsair Vengance 8gb DDr3
Gigabyte AM3+ GA-78LMT-USB3
WD Blue 1 TB HD
Corsair CX600
 
Solution
Trojan is a virus that tried to get information about your computer and does bad things to it. Use malware bites free to uninstall it before something bad happens!