I've just been running Ad-Aware 2007 and noticed it had found exactly 384 infections. Could this be the cause of my PC freezing?Pretty much...

That's a start...having found theses infections, they should be deleted and/or quarantined.

Once you're done checking for spyware...I'd also run an antivirus program.I just ran AVG Anti-Spyware, also known as Ewido.

I attached the report.



[Saving disk space -  old attachment deleted by admin]So now your COMPUTER is free of adware and spyware.

Have you run an antivirus scan...if so...was it clean as well?

Are you still having issues with your computer freezing?I am running Active Virus Shield now. I'm at 37%, and am running one hour, 45 minutes and 45 seconds already.

It seems it is going to finish in 3 hours.

I am clean so far. I think my C drive is clean as well. And no, I haven't experienced freezing today, I had some freezing yesterday which was quite severely, THOUGH.These scans should never take this long.

I would stop the scan you are currently running.  UPDATE my protection...boot into Safe Mode and run the scsans again....individually.  Run the antivirus scan first...then the AVG spyware program...in Safe Mode, though.  Let them delete and/or quarantine what they find.  Boot into Windows normally and run your scans again.Oh, no. The finish time is reducing. Never mind about the 3 hours waiting time.

And I have TONS of games on my drives.still i have 400 gigs of hhd space and and pletty of used and mine never takes this long. try avg free antivirus. Get spybot search and destroy and superantispyware. Then scan in safe mode with everything updated