I will give my specs real fast so that everyone knows I do have the hardware to run windows just fine.
Windows 7 home premium OEM
CPU: athlon II440
RAM: 4 GBs
MOBO: Asus M4A785TD-V EVO
Cpu has been running cool around 20c. Have done a chkdsk and a memory diagnostic to see if perhaps my hard drive or memory was the culprit.
The pc was running fine for the last 8 months until two days ago when all a sudden it was taking hours to boot up and when I even tried to go to the task manager to see what processes were running it crashed and would not allow me to go to task manager. I ran Norton internet securities with a full scan. along with malwarebytes to see if there were any virus. I did find two which I quarantined and removed. I also decided to do a system restore twice. First time it crashed, the second time it worked but still ran slow in normal mode. I decided to use the program Advanced system optimizer to run a search, the second it gets to looking for malware it slows down again and will take hours to run the scan or it will just shut down the pc. i have never dealt with a threat like this. I am assuming that it is a virus and not a hardware issue. Just curious if there are any other steps I can take before I have to do just a clean install, which I'm hoping not too.
