All of a sudden my Dell laptop (just over a year old, go figure) has started acting funny. Here's some of the issues that started happening all of a sudden
-It runs super slow at times and freezing up, svchost.exe seems to be taking a lot of resources up when that's happening
-The memory card reader doesn't work. It makes the noise that a new device has been recognized when I put one it, but it never shows up in My Computer.
-Both firefox and IE aren't loading some sites. I'm connected to the internet and some sites load just fine and others never seem to load- and it's not that the site is down. My google customized homepage will load, but I can't do any searches (either from the page or from the search toolbar in both IE and firefox), weather.com won't load- and the list seems to grow.
My first thought was I have some type of spyware even though I'm very good about not downloading stuff so I ran a ad-aware scan and it came up with nothing. I also ran a hijackthis scan and everything was normal there too.
Any thoughts on what's causing any of these issues or how I can fix them?
-It runs super slow at times and freezing up, svchost.exe seems to be taking a lot of resources up when that's happening
-The memory card reader doesn't work. It makes the noise that a new device has been recognized when I put one it, but it never shows up in My Computer.
-Both firefox and IE aren't loading some sites. I'm connected to the internet and some sites load just fine and others never seem to load- and it's not that the site is down. My google customized homepage will load, but I can't do any searches (either from the page or from the search toolbar in both IE and firefox), weather.com won't load- and the list seems to grow.
My first thought was I have some type of spyware even though I'm very good about not downloading stuff so I ran a ad-aware scan and it came up with nothing. I also ran a hijackthis scan and everything was normal there too.
Any thoughts on what's causing any of these issues or how I can fix them?