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    Solved! Webroot causing huge PC slowdowns?

    I don't recall if Windows Defender RTP was turned off, but I know when I went to my windows security hub, or whatever it is called, it did state that Webroot was taking care of everything. Guess I won't know for sure. I'm a bit worried to try install it a third time since I'm 2 for 2 on it...
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    Solved! Webroot causing huge PC slowdowns?

    I have a clean install of Windows 10 64bit and wanted to try a new virus security. Webroot gets a lot of praise because it's supposed to be very slim, and gets the job done, so I decided to give it a try. I installed the free trial and it brought my computer to a crawl immediately. Well, not a...
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    Did CCleaner break my Virus Security?

    Thanks for the help, everyone. By your advice, I uninstalled Malwarebytes using Revo Uninstaller then went into Regedit and carefully deleted all Malwarebytes related registry entries as an extra cleaning step. Just going to run CCleaner and Kaspersky for now.
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    Did CCleaner break my Virus Security?

    To be honest, I don't usually look at exactly what it is deleting. I have put too much trust in it I suppose, but not anymore! If I recall correctly, the amount it was going to clean in the Windows Temp. Files category was really high.. Makes me afraid to use CCleaner again.
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    Did CCleaner break my Virus Security?

    The other day I ran CCleaner and cleaned up some junk files on my computer. No special options were selected. I believe everything was default except I had it set to clean Chrome completely. The cleaning went as usual. But the next day, I turned on my computer, both Kaspersky Pure and my...
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    Can a Trojan within an unopened zip file be harmful?

    Earlier I downloaded a game trainer and before I opened it, I scanned it with my Bitdefender security. Bitdefender detected a Trojan called Trojan.Generic.(bunch of random numbers). Anyway, I of course cleaned the Trojan, then used the file shredder option within Bitdefender to destroy the...