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More info?)
Uzi wrote:
> Either the cursor disappears from the face of the earth or, if the
> cursor stays alive, the screen freezes as if it saw the boogyman.
> I'm running on XP pro. I'm cleaning my machine with a spyware
> doctor, spybot, adaware, and AVG. Help anyone?
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Computer freezing randomly? Here are some solutions that might help..
1. Make sure that your fans are working properly. Especially the fan on your
processor's heatsink. The fans should also be dust free as well as all
peripheral cards and the expansion slots themselves. If necessary, remove
the fan and physically clean the blades. The heatsink for your processor
(and the one on your video card if you have one) should also be dust free.
2. Make sure your computer is not in a room that is unusually warm during
the day. If it is hovering around 30°C (86°F), consider moving it to a
different room or find a way to keep the room cooler.
3. Perform a hard drive defrag.
4. Make sure all of your device drivers are up to date. Especially video,
audio, and network drivers.
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Use these spyware scanners to erraticate your spyware problem:
*Make sure you check for spyware definition updates for all of these
scanners before using them.
Spybot Search & Destroy 1.4
http://www.safer-networking.org
Ad-Aware SE 1.06 Personal
http://www.lavasoftusa.com
Spyware Blaster 3.4
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Spy Sweeper 4.0.3 Build 405
http://www.webroot.com
XoftSpy 4.15
http://www.paretologic.com
CWShredder 2.15*
http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshredder_download.html
* = Use the standalone version of CWShredder.
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