Programs locking up and running in background

Amplifyde

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Jul 9, 2017
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Browser will freeze briefly and crash. Task manager will show process still running and ending it does nothing. Other programs I close from that point will do the same. Programs already running(excluding browser) are uninterrupted and can continue to be used until I close them, at which point they continue to have a background process running.

Once I restart my computer everything goes back to normal, and several hours later the problem starts again.

This happened seemingly overnight without having downloaded anything in weeks.
 
Solution
Download and run both PC Decrapifier and CCleaner.

Run an anti-malware program like Malwarebytes. Do some deep cleaning on your own, looking through Control Panel > Programs > Uninstall a program, to see what else there is that is unwanted, as well as looking through the list of browser extensions.

If all else fails, wipe and reformat the drive (to NTFS) and reinstall Windows. A fresh OS install is usually a sure-fire fix for most malware problems.

amtseung

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Download and run both PC Decrapifier and CCleaner.

Run an anti-malware program like Malwarebytes. Do some deep cleaning on your own, looking through Control Panel > Programs > Uninstall a program, to see what else there is that is unwanted, as well as looking through the list of browser extensions.

If all else fails, wipe and reformat the drive (to NTFS) and reinstall Windows. A fresh OS install is usually a sure-fire fix for most malware problems.
 
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