- Sep 24, 2008
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When I play a game online, it stutters every 10-15 seconds with a 1-2 second pause. This is highly annoying and nearly makes it unplayable.
I thought it was my ISP/router/modem and bugged the hell out of them. Everything was concluded to be fine after a looooong hassle of buying a new router, getting modem replaced, etc...
Then I started to suspect it's may be my actual PC. So I installed the same game on my laptop and played on it. No such stutter.
So I'm assuming it's a virus/malware/trojan of sort in my desktop that's causing these hiccups.
I have Avast's live protection on and scanning doesn't pick up anything except this 1 malware. I delete it and it seems to be gone. Then few days later, it's picked up again. So it looks like Avast is not effectively cutting the root of the problem. Same goes for Malwarebyte & Spybot. All are updated with latest version/definition of course.
1. It has to be the virus causing the stutter right?
2. How do I get rid of this virus? Maybe I'll do the pre-boot system scan.
3. I'm tempted to just backup and format my PC... ugh.
Any ideas?
I thought it was my ISP/router/modem and bugged the hell out of them. Everything was concluded to be fine after a looooong hassle of buying a new router, getting modem replaced, etc...
Then I started to suspect it's may be my actual PC. So I installed the same game on my laptop and played on it. No such stutter.
So I'm assuming it's a virus/malware/trojan of sort in my desktop that's causing these hiccups.
I have Avast's live protection on and scanning doesn't pick up anything except this 1 malware. I delete it and it seems to be gone. Then few days later, it's picked up again. So it looks like Avast is not effectively cutting the root of the problem. Same goes for Malwarebyte & Spybot. All are updated with latest version/definition of course.
1. It has to be the virus causing the stutter right?
2. How do I get rid of this virus? Maybe I'll do the pre-boot system scan.
3. I'm tempted to just backup and format my PC... ugh.
Any ideas?