Problem 1: I think my hardrive/disk is is on it's was to retirement. I'm not 100, but my laptop is making grinding noises. The sound has gotten slightly louder than before and it's more of an electronic sounding buzz. I'm guessing it could also be my fan as well since my computer did make a LOUD buzzing sound one day and after my fan became weaker.
Other than the very faint grinding sound I don't really have any oddities except for my computer being a little slower. Internet takes longer to open and I was having small crashing issues before such as windows explorer and Firefox issues. I did scanned for this before in normal and safe mode and got nada.
In any case I could care less if this computer blows out since I'm not going to spend money to fix it if something happens. I'll just end up buying a new one since this laptop was cheap to begin with.
Problem 2: What IS annoying is that I turned on my computer this morning> opened Google> typed in mediafire dot com( in an attempt to upload some of my save files for back up, knowing my computer might explode any min.) and bam my Avast goes off. So I assume, "well duh it's file sharing site; it might have something going on right now" note: I didn't log in to anything. . So I leave it alone and go to FB and bambam Avast goes off again on the home page.
I opened Ad aware to run a smart scan and I found "win. 32 online gaming troj. Go figure.
I got rid of it through that, restarted, and now I'm running a full scan. While this was running, I was laying down and noticed that an Adaware web page was opening up on my browser and when it opened Avast blocked a threat again. Now I may have accidentally hit the help icon at the bottom of the scan window, since I did slightly hit the touch pad while I was trying to un screensave my computer just before it opened. I'm really more concerned with the fact that Avast still went off.
The only thing that came to mind was that Google redirect virus but idk enough about it. When the scan is complete I might just completely reinstall the OS again if it doesn't die in the process. I'm not sure what's best though.
Suggestions?/ Ideas?
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