![]() It's not that bad most of the time, but it varies. I'd been using Panda up until then, which didn't find anything either, but I wanted to switch to something else when I started having problems. Spybot didn't show anything either, but I had to uninstall it to install BitDefender. I scanned for viruses with BitDefender, but nothing came up. I also installed some freeware around that time (Adventure Game Studio), but I think it was probably the other sites, if it's not just a hardware issue or something. I was doing some online shopping last week, around the time it started, and I passed through a couple shady looking sites by accident while I was browsing, and that's around the time this started. I suspect I've picked up some kind of malware from a malicious website. I hear the same stutter at the same times and get the same mouse skipping/slowing when I've got a local audio file playing from VLC media player, for instance. It happens system-wide, not just in web browsers. The mouse cursor slows down too, at the same times. It sounds sort of like how stuff sounds on YouTube when it's set to reduced speed. It's easiest to notice when I've got music playing, because the music slows down and stutters for a second. For about the past week, my machine's been slowing down at seemingly random times or when I do things like open new tabs in Firefox. ![]()
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