Can Virus & Bad Sector decrease Internet speed?

Ganesh Ujwal · 25 Apr 2015

Can Virus & Bad Sector decrease Internet speed?

Usually Virus & Bad Sector slow down the PC, what about effect on internet?

ThrashZone · 25 Apr 2015

Hi,
Viruses cause havoc so yes :)
Please fill in your system spec's page and add which security suite/ s you have installed,

Review Jacee’s instructions to run Adwcleaner here post #7,
Ignore the title of the thread,
https://www.sevenforums.com/system-security/316404-instant-savings-app.html

On the BleepingComputer site use the button that looks like this,

You can use these free tools to see if they find anything,
Manually Update them before running full scans,
Try not to use your computer while the scans are running, (one at a time of course).
See this tutorial on how to download and run Malwarebytes,
https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/338716-malwarebytes-anti-malware-free.html
Also use the Custom scan option not the Threat scan,

Please Do Not clean/ Delete or Remove Any detections before posting the scan results first before review especially Malwarebytes,
http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free
SAS is safe to remove anything it finds

http://www.superantispyware.com/?tag=SUPERANTISPYWARE
This one is the longest up to 4 hours, the others are only about 45 minutes,
http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx