Think I finally got rid of RightMedia, now have "Matchcraft" in Red

[Paper Roses]

Spybot found this last night. I fixed to, immunized and will run a scan again this AM to see what is there.

In my fruitless search this AM for Matchcraft information, I read many postings on MajorGeeks, BleepingComputer and other places that Spybot is a major resource hog and that I would be better off with Avast. Could find no real info on Matchcraft.

Any thoughts?

MSE and Malwarebytes have not caught everything. That is why I reinstalled S&D.

There seems to be nothing really wrong except this old computer is running very slow and if I change to Avast, will the speed improve?

Cannot afford to but a new machine.

Thanks again.
PR

[CK_John]

1. Avast is an antivirus program and would have to replace MSE. Not a good choice

right now. Spybot S%D is antimalware, of which you can have multiple programs. SpywareBlaster 4.2 is a good replement for Spybot S%D.

<http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/>

I think you are cluttering up by installing and uninstalling programs.

I would run disk cleanup and defrag hard drive and insure you have enough memory. Check www.memoryx.net for amount of memory and price.

[hobbit709]

2. More memory is not always the answer.

If a computer was working fast before and then started running slow, it's not a memory problem.
If it was slow off the bat, you probably need more memory, but if it was fast and then slowed down that won't fix it. It's probably more a case of too much crap in the startup hogging resources, something in there that shouldn't be or system needing a major registry cleaning and defragging.

[CK_John]

3. I disagree, every machine sold new usually has minimum memory and gets

maxed out quickly. Lots of machines running with only 128 or 256MB.

[hobbit709]

4. Not with Vista or newer

And I rarely see a machine with XP with only 256. I don't think I ever saw one with only 128 and running XP out of the factory. I did see a laptop that had XP loaded on it with a 266MHz Pentium II and 64Mb RAM. It took about 10 minutes to fully boot to the desktop and the hard drive was going crazy swap filing. I was able to increase the RAM to 160 and wiped the XP and installed 2000 on it and it ran reasonably well for what it was after that.

A tweaked XP machine with 512 will run faster than the average Vista machine with 1Gb or better at the same processor speed. Of course anything will run better than Vista to start with.