Performance of my PC is very badly affected. The PC has been formatted 3 times within a month. Kindly suggest what to do. Will running any anti virus help? If yes, please send url for download.1 person needs an answerI do too

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On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 06:22:51 +0000, shahidwin wrote:Performance of my PC is very badly affected. The PC has been formatted 3 times within a month.Reformatting and reinstalling Windows because you are experiencing aproblem is almost always a very bad thing to do. With a modicum of care, it should never be necessary to reinstallWindows (XP or any other version). I've run Windows 3.0, 3.1, WFWG3.11, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista,and now Windows 7, each for the period of time before the next versioncame out, and each on two or more machines here. I never reinstalledany of them, and I have never had anything more than an occasionalminor problem.It's my belief that this mistaken notion stems from the technicalsupport people at many of the larger OEMs. Their solution to almostany problem they don't quickly know the answer to is "reformat andreinstall." That's the perfect solution for them. It gets you off thephone quickly, it almost always works, and it doesn't require them todo any real troubleshooting (a skill that most of them obviously don'tpossess in any great degree).But it leaves you with all the work and all the problems. You have torestore all your data backups, you have to reinstall all yourprograms, you have to reinstall all the Windows and applicationupdates, you have to locate and install all the needed drivers foryour system, you have to recustomize Windows and all your apps to workthe way you're comfortable with.Besides all those things being time-consuming and troublesome, you mayhave trouble with some of them: can you find all your application CDs?Can you find all the needed installation codes? Do you have databackups to restore? Do you even remember all the customizations andtweaks you may have installed to make everything work the way youlike? Occasionally there are problems that are so difficult to solvethat Windows should be reinstalled cleanly. But they are few and farbetween; reinstallation should not be a substitute fortroubleshooting; it should be a last resort, to be done only after allother attempts at troubleshooting by a qualified person have failed. And perhaps most important: if you reformat and reinstall withoutfinding out what caused your problem, you will very likely repeat thebehavior that caused it, and quickly find yourself back in exactly thesame situation.That last paragraph above is applicable in your case.Kindly suggest what to do. Will running any anti virus help? If yes, please send url for download.Do you run no anti-virus program? And no anti-spyware programs either?That's almost certainly the reason for your problems. You are infectedwith malware.For an anti-virus program, I recommend eSet NOD32, if you are willingto pay for it. If you want a free anti-virus, I recommend one (do notrun more than one) of the following three: Avira AntiVirAvastMicrosoft Security Essentials You also need anti-spyware software. I recommend that you download andinstall (both freeware) MalwareBytes AntiMalware andSuperAntiSpyware. Ken Blake (MS MVP)