Obviously this isn't a new system so you must have bought this from a friend or online. Most likely either its infected or the drive is full of files thats not needed.
If you are taking over this laptop then your best bet would be to reinstall windows fresh. However, an 80 gb drive isn't very big by todays standards, you might want to think about getting at least a 250gb drive and adding another 1gb of memory as running vista with only 1 gb is gonna be sluggish.
If you think it infected, please do the following.
Please download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware from
here or
here and save it to your desktop.
- Double-click mbam-setup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
- At the end, be sure a checkmark is placed next to
- Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
- and Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
- then click Finish.
- If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version. Please keep updating until it says you have the latest version.
- Once the program has loaded, select Perform quick scan, then click Scan.
- When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results.
- Be sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected.
- A log will be saved automatically which you can access by clicking on the Logs tab within Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
Download the HijackThis installer from
here.
Run the installer and choose
Install, indicating that you accept the licence agreement. The installer will place a shortcut on your desktop and launch HijackThis.
Click
Do a system scan and save a logfile
Most of what HijackThis lists will be harmless or even essential, don't fix anything yet.
Post the logfile that HijackThis produces along with the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware log
