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Your system running slow. It may not be a virus.

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Jul 6, 2010

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While a slow system may be a symptom of viruses or other malware, it may be an indication of disk problems.

The other day, I decided that I was sick and tired of my slow system. As I try out lots of software, I thought I might have gotten infected by a virus or spyware. After running detailed scans of my system, no problems were found, but still the system was slow. I ran a detailed disk check, including sectore recovery. After that, the system was back up to its normal speedy self. It appears that I has a number of disc errors, that the scan corrected. These errors were causing the system to perform multiple retries, and hence the slow performance.