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Data dam broke. Help
Thank you everyone. All little points worth remembering.
Bout the only game the wife plays is 8 year old 'Sims', so she doesn't need anything powerful. Nor, is she getting anything powerful. I ordered an Asus Radeon HD6450. 2012 era card, $50. *new*
Data levels holding strong. Slaying all those PUPs took care of the problem. Marking this thread as 'resolved'.
Hopefully, have found the problem. Malwarebytes said 3 pup files on my computer, 125 pup files on the wife's. Cleaned em out. Glasswire shows nothing unusual on either one now. (I didn't get a chance to run it on her computer before the cleaning)
Probably should be a sticky (not MY thread)... 'Losing Data? Clean your computer!'
Sorry for the panic post.
A lot of times, those PUP (Potentially Unwanted Programs) can be rather nasty, downloading large advertisements for display in other programs, or even hijacking your browser to display more advertisements than a website author originally put up.
Glad that you ran the scan with MalwareBytes and seem to have fixed the issue!
Yes, I think you are right. Where before, the GB's were dropping like flies, the numbers seem stable now.
Off-topic question, if you don't mind. Would those PUP's affect the working of a video card? Wife has on-board graphics, and the feed has been shutting down. Monitor is fine, but after a while (30 minutes?) the screen goes blank, and a 'no signal' box shows up.
I thought it might just have been dirty, not cooling properly. It WAS dirty, but I got it all cleaned up. Fans are all working. Connections are all fine. It just 'gets tired' and gives up.
Are you sure that the machine isn't set to sleep, or turn the display off after being idle? Does this happen while it's actually in use?
Unlikely those PUP's would cause that, most the time someone that writes such things wants the machine to be used, not to disable the machine.
What OS is on it exactly, and what model computer is it? I assume hers is a desktop?No, it isn't going to sleep. Shuts down while she is working on it.
It is an older Desktop (2012) HP P-7 1387 with an I-5 processor, running Win 7
Two reasons I asked. I have already ordered a descreet video card, thinking the problem was there. Also, since I have cleared out the PUP's, it has not shut down. That was why I was asking about them affecting a video card.
