ssal
Active Member
This is my buddy's computer.
He said, starting this week, his computer slows to a snail crawl. Every click on anything, Firefox, Chrome, Photoshop, email, etc. would take minutes to launch, if it launched at all. Some program, like Photoshop would said some corrupted file and would not open.
I took the computer to my house and confirmed it is indeed the case and very very slow. I tried launching Malwarebytes to check for virus infection but it would not launch at all. The cursor spinned a while and then nothing happened.
I had done the Macrium imaging of the boot drive for him a while back. I was able to boot it up with the boot USB and restore from the image. Then it's fixed.
I am pretty sure it was a virus attack that caused that. Do you have any idea what it was and how it got there?
He said, starting this week, his computer slows to a snail crawl. Every click on anything, Firefox, Chrome, Photoshop, email, etc. would take minutes to launch, if it launched at all. Some program, like Photoshop would said some corrupted file and would not open.
I took the computer to my house and confirmed it is indeed the case and very very slow. I tried launching Malwarebytes to check for virus infection but it would not launch at all. The cursor spinned a while and then nothing happened.
I had done the Macrium imaging of the boot drive for him a while back. I was able to boot it up with the boot USB and restore from the image. Then it's fixed.
I am pretty sure it was a virus attack that caused that. Do you have any idea what it was and how it got there?