Eating Ram

[PennyB]

Anyone know of a virus that eats lots of RAM? my 2000 pc is running out of ram a lot, but it's only been doing it recently.

Thanks in advance

Penny

 

[xeroxvendor]

Try going to

http://www.trendmicro.com

and run Housecall. Its a free virus scanner/removal.

Then goto

http://www.lavasoft.de

and download the adware personal that is a free spyware/adware removal tool

Run that scanner. It might be possible that you have a trojan / spyware program cause the memory leak.



David Drury
Northeast Laser Image

http://www.northeastlaserimage.com

 

[PennyB]

Tried that, and the av scan came up clean. I already use adawre and spybot.

 

[jaydeebe]

A few things for you to look at-

Is the memory correctly reported? Check at boot time and in system properties.

Does this problem occur when you have a few programs open?

Have you recently started using a new application?

Right click my computer and click properties. Goto the advanced tab and click performance options. Check optimize perfomance for applications.

crtl-alt-del and open task manager. Is there a running process that is hogging all the resources?