Is my computer infected by trojan horse?? See details.?

So whenever I open a web browser (usually Google chrome) and go to any site, my anti virus software always detects 6 trojan virus. I have avast anti virus by the way, its the free one though. I also downloaded some movies and songs through torrent. Maybe that's why. So I scanned my computer and deleted the infected/infectious files. But its still the same, they still detect a virus. So I'm freaking out here. What should I do? Is my computer really infected?

May be your PC is still infected with Virus or Trojans, You need to scan in depth of your system files. Avast free edition has limited features when compared to a Avast Internet Security. One more reason behind this is, in your pc some malware software may be installed once check in the control panel add/remove progrrames. Then check in browsers plugin or extensions there might be some unnecessary plugins installed. If you have found one uninstall it and restart browsers, reset to default settings.

Better install a Norton Internet Security Trial, remove the avast free edition. After Update the norton virus defintions. If any threats found I assure you it will remove the threats. and Run a Full System Scan. Symantec provides the Security software with full features with 30 days trial. After 30 days if you can afford buy a full version of the software.

So many malware sites are there in world wide web, people dont know which they should download or avoid. Installing a Internet Security software will protect your PC from all these types of softwares.

Gateway Laptop stuck on startup?

I have had it since September. Never had any problems with it, until today. The screen got slammed shut and now will not do anything. It gets stuck on the starting windows screen and goes black. I have tried F11 and it does nothing. I have tried rebooting it but it just goes black and 15 minutes later it goes to a grey screen and has the cursor, but won't do anything else! I need help, please.

Which operating system you have installed? because there might be problem with the boot files, They may corrupted and unable to boot. Once check BIOS as well, check the boot devices list in that check first boot device should be set to hard disk, if not do it and press F10 and save the settings. Make sure that you have loaded operating system. One more reason behind this is your system is infected with viruses, get a good internet security software and scan the whole system.

If you are sure that you have loaded operating system, insert the operating system CD and boot from that cd. At the first screen you will find the options to repair the boot, try to repair it. If not done go to the next step where you will asked to check the license agreement press F8. After it will check for the OS if any previous versions are installed if not it will show you the list. Try to repair. If this screen is not shown, main problem with the file system. In some situations many os lost the File system, I have faced the problem so many times. If you lost the file system you cannot recover the data. If same thing happens to you, you need to delete the partition and create it. Install the OS and follow the procedure.

If you have any data that you lost, download the recover my files software and try to get your data back. It is a good software I assure you it recovers your data.

What's wrong with my internet?

For the past two weeks my connection has been terrible. It gets really bad at around 7 pm to 11 pm and sometimes is bad all day. Anybody have any ideas? Thanks in advance. I have, we talked for an hour and the guy said that I probably had a virus on my computer, so he had me test my connection on another computer and the upload speed came out to be 2 Mbps and the guy said that it's fine. I'm supposed to be getting 5 Mbps  That's almost 5 times slower. Then he tried telling me that I'm lagging on my Xbox because we're watching Netflix at the same time, the thing is, I wasn't on both. Plus it never mattered before if I was doing both at the same time.

Might be your PC is infected with Virus or check the data cable, change the cable if you are connecting your PC through a Modem or Switch or Router. You should check the following as well whether the LAN port of your PC is working fine or not. Try inserting the other LAN card on the motherboard and Install the Latest Drivers, connect to the Internet check the speed. If every thing is right, problem is with the on board LAN card. Check the LAN drivers whether correctly installed or not. Go to motherboard manufacturer's site and download the Latest drivers.

Your PC might be infected with viruses or Trojans...etc or any ongoing downloads are going in background. check the applications or If any one around installed a speed limiter software's like Netlimiter, check the add/remove programmes in control and uninstall them. Fault with Internet browsers also is one of the reason, install a new browser don't install or update or uninstall the existing browsers.

If you are connecting through Router using WiFi, you need to check with router settings. Might be Router settings are reducing the speed of your Internet on Desktop.

Why is my laptop's wireless connection so slow?

Recently at school, whenever I try to connect to the internet it is extremely slow. I am on the same network as forty other students, but my connection seems to be the only slow one. Any ideas as to why this is happening?

As you are saying that forty students are connected to same WIFI this means that net will be slow obviously, because it depends on the speed. Assume that you school has 10 Mbps bandwidth and forty students are connected to it, in that 30 of them are watching you tube video and other ten students wont get the internet or the browsing will be slow.

Check your school bandwidth limit first, there are so many features in the Router to limit router. Managed Routers and Unmanaged Routers, Managed Routers have power to limited the speed to certain IP address or to certain MAC address.

check the internet speed , when you all forty students connected to same network on speedtest.net, you will come to know what exactly happening? when you are single in the class room and only you are connected to the internet once check the internet speed, you will come to know that how much speed the management is providing.

There are many reasons for this problem, May be your Laptop is infected with virus or any ongoing download is going on in background like torrents and any windows updates...etc. If you are aware of them check thoroughly. Scan your whole PC with a good Internet Security software's.

If you are downloading alot or browsing alot when connected to Internet, if this is observed by your school management they might be limiting the speed of Internet to your particular IP address or MAC address. If this is done by the management you can change the IP address, if speed limited by MAC address that is not possible to change.

How to install BIOS update on 64-bit windows 7 (GA-990FXA-UD3)?

I have a GA-990FXA-UD3 mobo and i need to update it so i can upgrade my CPU to 8350.

I tried to install it from: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3894#bios

but it says i have an incorrect version (64-bit instead of 32-bit) and I cant find the 64-bit version anywhere. What do I do?

You can update Bios in Many ways, one thing is after updating bios, your may face some minute problems like getting strucked, slow performance..etc beacuse I faced these problems after updating my ASUS K8V-MX motherboard, well I did got some other problems like capacitors failure after I came to know that this problems came into existence because of failure of BIOS. But I am not sure about the problem caused beacause of updating BIOS.

http://www.gigabyte.in/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3894#bios in this link you might be choosing 32bit operating system, downloading the exe file but check which operating system selected by you and download the exe file and follow the on screen instructions. If same problem persists there might other ways to update BIOS.

If you need any technical help, follow this link http://www.gigabyte.in/support-downloads/technical-support.aspx

Gigabyte providing the softwares like qflash and @bios download these softwares from this link http://www.gigabyte.com/webpage/20/HowToReflashBIOS.html

download the latest drivers from the gigabyte official website and in your motherboard drivers CD may contain the previous or old version of drivers. 

It is recommended to install a good anitvirus security or Internet security to get rid of threats

How do I install drivers with no internet connection?

I bought a new motherboard recently, and I can't connect to the internet because it says it needs new drivers. The motherboard Did Not come with a CD with the drivers on it.

Motherboard itself has drivers CD, as the manufacturer gives the drivers CD. If you didn't get, contact the vendor or go  to the service centre.

You can also download the drivers from the manufacturer's website, If you mention the model of the motherboard I can give you the link to download the drivers.

If you don't know the model, install the OS and go to Start Menu - Accessories - System Tools - System Information, a window will open check for system manufacturer and system model and just type both in Google search. Download the drivers from the official site only, If you download the drivers from other or unofficial sites they may contain viruses, trojan...etc. Before this install a Good Internet Security Programme.

Note down the model and manufacturer name of your motherboard and Walk in to a nearby cyber cafe, download all the drivers and copy them in to a USB drive. Install them on your PC. If you have Internet Connection, just download only WiFi or LAN drivers install them on your system and connect to the Internet, download other drivers from the manufacturers website.

Some don't forget to download the goodies or optional software's like they provide software's like ON/OFF Charge, this software helps in to super charge the IPhone.

My folders are hidden by EXE virus after cleaning them by antivirus.?

I am using Trend Micro Titanium antivirus, and when I cleaned my hard disk using this antivirus, it found EXE virus and cleaned them, after cleaning the virus, all the folders are hidden in my removable hard disk. 

I can find the folders by entering their addresses like (J:/movies) but not by clicking on the drive. So, I don't know all the folder names to get them like that. 

what is the solution?

Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus is good security against antivirus, cleans and disinfects well. Some viruses are moved to virus chest or quarantine check them and delete them as well. Update your virus definitions and they provide some removal tools for some strong threats. These antivirus cannot delete or clean them, you need to download the removal tools, contact the support centre of Trend Micro.

EXE virus is one of the threats, spreads by just a click, It moves to external drives. You need to know whether that is a folder or an exe files, check by going to the properties of the folder you will come to know what exactly it is?

These types of viruses hides the original files and duplicate the folder on the same name with extension .EXE files. If you scan with a antivirus it removes or cleans them, but the original files are not saved by the antivirus. You are typing the folder name or path in address bar, then only you can access the files. Here Go to Tools-Folder Options-View tab-check the dot show the hidden folders, files and drivers and uncheck hide empty drives in the computer folder, hide extensions to know files types. So they are displayed here, select all by pressing Ctrl+A and go to properties and  In general tab uncheck the hidden, click apply OK. so here you need do for the all folders.

A short way to do is just open the drive and select all the items in it and uncheck hide option in General tab. After doing all these check the hide empty drives in the computer folder, hide extensions to know files types. That's it.....

Is this all in one computer okay for gaming & regular use (watching movies, browsing the web, etc)?

So I'm not very good with computers. And I'm not big into gaming, so I really have no idea what to look for. I'm buying it for someone else, since my mom can get it for very cheap through her work.

Can anyone tell me if it's good or not?

CPU: Intel i7 3770 3.5GHz

RAM: 16GB DDR3

HDD: 320GB SATA

Video: Nvidia 1GB

Like I said, I'm not good with computers, so if I'm missing any info I apologize.

Intel i7 is excellent processor, as 3770 is a 3rd generation processor and I found there is lot of performance difference in the 1st generation and 2nd generation. You have choosen good processor as it is 3rd generation. Better go for Intel i7 3770k you can unlock the processor speed upto 3.9ghz. Better install a cooler master Thermal Solutions when you installed with 3770k.

You didn't mentioned motherboard, choose a motherboard that suitable to processor, best is Intel Z77 express chipset choose from the best makers like Gigabyte, Asus, MSI as per requirements. My opinion is go for Asus SABERTOOTH Z77, it is very good in performance, if you need more specs click here

You didn't mentioned whether the hard disk cheetah, baraccuda, SSD. Choose SSD's there will be a lot difference between normal hard disk and SSD's. Transfer rate will be more in SSD's than compared to normal harddisk.

Nvidia 1GB, Make sure which model you are going to install, if you mention the games which you play I can give the list of graphic cards supported by that games. Make list of games, then choose the better graphic card.

As you are installing 16 GB DDR3 of memory, you need install 64bit operating system.

My laptop keeps re-rebooting everytime! Please help!?

I wanted to clean up the disk so I scheduled a boot-time scan from Avast Antivirus. Normally, my files stay secured after boot-time scanning, but for some reason, I lost some documents and completely wiped out by virus. It's fresh and all, but the problem is that hardware resets to its original position every time, When I restarting the laptop. While it was rebooting, I deleted all the viruses infected and wonder if this has to do anything with this issue.

How do stop my laptop from re-rebooting every single time! Please help me. This is really annoying.

Avast is a good antivirus programmes that detects threats if you have a Full version of software. Avast providing the free version of it's antivirus programme with 1 year license, but you need to know why. The free version of Avast has limited features. If you install it detects threats up to the signature's level. Better Buy the full version to enjoy all the features.

Already you have scheduled boot time scan, It scans boot files...if any threat found it cleans and restarts your computer. Better Install a full version of internet security and update the virus definitions, scan the whole computer. Before scanning the system, disconnect your PC from the Internet.

If the problem persists, you need to repair the windows using windows installation disc, may be the boot files are infected, again the PC is re-restarting because of the it restoring the files from Backup, after restoring PC can able to boot.

Internet Security or All in One security has many features like anti Malware, antivirus  anti root-kit  firewall, anti trojan....etc. 

If your files are deleted unknowingly you can recover, there are many software's available on Internet, download them, they provide trial versions if you can afford buy the full version.