Signs of virus infection or malware infiltration…
- Popup ads appear when you are not surfing the Internet
- Your homepage changes automatically to a different location
- Your system runs slowly, even with only a few applications open
- Your system is using more memory than usual
- Unusual messages or displays on your monitor
- Unusual sounds or music played at random times
- Your system resources are unexpectedly low
- A disk name or volume name has been changed
- Programs or files are suddenly missing
- Unknown programs or files have been created
- Some of your files become corrupted or suddenly don’t work properly
- Internet connection is slower
- Your system “crashes” often
Signs of impending hard drive failure…
- Clicking noises are heard coming from your hard drive
- Your computer freezes frequently
- Your computer takes a long time to boot up