im confused by my machine
 

I consider myself to be pretty with it for techie stuff, but my machine is behaving so wildly. I swore it had a virus, but couldnt find any traces of it. Used Malwarebytes, AVG, nortons, Prosuite, Combofix...you name it. cant hunt the thing down, and then I saw that whatever was being scanned it was skipping over my pictures and documents as "locked" files. now, I can see my photos, but none of the antivirus stuff was scanning in there. I tried running as Admin, but it did the same thing. Frequently the CPU would speed up to be 95% usage! no programs were running, and yet there it sat revving away. it would stop after a minute, but it should NOT be doing that.

I pulled ALL my documents, pictures and so on, onto a thumb drive and then I restored my computer back to out of the box condition. I have reinstalled the OS and have done ALL the updates. I put Proscan suite back on it, because I really like it. I have run Malwarebytes and so on, and it shows clean, but my CPU is still doing the run away thing. not nearly as often, but its still at it. I dont have a single photo or document back on this machine yet, so if it was something hiding in the photo/doc files it hasnt even touched the USB port let alone had any time to reload itself.

Ideas? suggestions? hints? tips? tricks? I cannot afford to take this thing to a shop. Its a quad core processor running Windows 7 with all updates in place. I have a terrabyte HD so no worries there. im just so frustrated that I have this fancy machine, and it runs like an old worn out junker. Any advice or tricks would be appreciated.

Have you tried a cleaner?
Ccleaner, Glary Utilities are the ones I have used most often.

here's more w/ ratings/reviews & download info -
http://download.cnet.com/1770-2018_4...tsTile;navForm

Or try Hijack this - it will make a list of what is actually running on your system - then you can look up each thing if you don't recognize it & go from there. you can get it from the cnet link or Google for it.

We just had a crash from an Ad-aware download. We still do not have our Win 7 laptop running on the internet. It won't restore,
and hubby is waiting for son to return from a vacation.

I am losing faith in the scanning programs myself. This happened after Ad-aware downloaded its new stuff before a scan which we do weekly.

Blech.

I have done Ccleaner and have cleaned the registry as well as defragged the registry and the hard drive. its bizzare! I feel like the antivirus stuff is skipping right past whatever this is! Frustrating as I have used the free and the paid programs and its still there! I have done the big boy combo fix and so on, so...im confused. I need this machine, so I am kinda freaked out.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Defective parts or overheating???
Sometimes you just get parts that go bad...:confused:

Dejibo,

Looks like you may have too much(Malwarebytes, AVG, nortons, Prosuite, Combofix...Proscan?) running on your system. Try uninstalling all but just one antivirus program, preferably just a standalone antivirus program and not some bloated "suite" of programs.

That quad core machine with Windows 7 should be quick and nimble, not bloated & draggy, ;)