WHAT does my computer have?

[paperfairy]

I dunno.... it's just fucked up. Everything is sluggish, my mouse randomly disconnects and reconnects, Opera and Dreamweaver just randomly close (no crash reports, they just CLOSE, process and all [well, Opera's process sticks around]) and it just has these fits of freezing for ten minutes at a time, and Trillian just goes into NOT WORKING FOR TEN MINUTES mode, in which everything reverts to pink backgrounds for icons and VERY basic textboxes, along with messaging windows that.... don't display text. I've scanned my computer with:

AntiVir Guard (Well, most of a scan, had to restart..... but it detects viruses when they ENTER my system, so I never really have to scan.... ever. It kills them on teh spot. ^_^)
Spybot Search and Destroy
Ad-Aware

So nothing is on my system that they can detect.

Help?

 

[Rayne]

Sounds nasty.

Out of curiosity, how long ago did this start to happen?
Well if all these occurrences are new, then it must be a bug of some sort.
Perhaps try thinking about the last thing you installed and temporarily disable that.
Perhaps whatever it is, it's taxing the CPU running in the background undetected.
Hopefully it isn't something crucial like a virus or some obscure keylogger,
but I wouldn't hold my breath.

I can't say for sure what it is, but if your anti-virus and spy-detection can't detect
whatever is causing that corruption, there aren't too many more options
other than to back-up [files] and clean house.

As a side note, if you do lose one of those windows like, lets say Opera,
and you do catch Opera still operating in the background processes,
try to alt+tab into it for the time being. It may or may not work depending
on how severe your case is.

 

[GuitarHero]

My Opinion

Hmm judging from what you say... although you might not want to here it, I would say the best thing for you to do would be to do a total system restore.
Either from the backup disks you made when you got your comp.(if you made some) or you could use the recovery partition on your hard drive. You can usually access this by pressing F8 while your computer is booting up.
You could try to backup what files that you want...if you can. But then you run the risk of bringing over something malicious again if you do happen to have a virus or logger or anthing dangerous on your computer.
Stuff like this has happened to me many times over the years and I have found this proccess <(cant spell) works better than trying to single out the bug or problem and eliminate it.
Its just better to start out on a clean slate.

 

[paperfairy]

Everyone on the channel said the same thing, so I am going to do an entire system reboot. I am STILL VERY curious as to WHAT this is, but I guess I'll never know. Besides, I like system restores - it leaves me feeling new, and fresh.... I think.

Sounds nasty.

Out of curiosity, how long ago did this start to happen?
Two weeks ago, with symptoms getting worse with the day.

Well if all these occurrences are new, then it must be a bug of some sort.
Perhaps try thinking about the last thing you installed and temporarily disable that.
Did that. Still buggy.

Perhaps whatever it is, it's taxing the CPU running in the background undetected.
Hopefully it isn't something crucial like a virus or some obscure keylogger,
but I wouldn't hold my breath.

I can't say for sure what it is, but if your anti-virus and spy-detection can't detect
whatever is causing that corruption, there aren't too many more options
other than to back-up [files] and clean house.

Yay.

As a side note, if you do lose one of those windows like, lets say Opera,
and you do catch Opera still operating in the background processes,
try to alt+tab into it for the time being. It may or may not work depending
on how severe your case is.

It's odd. The process is still around, but I can't do ANYTHING with Opera..... unless I stop the process and reopen Opera.