Hi, I have a really good laptop for about a year. Now he's crazy in a thing. The cooler is running at full speed and the cpu is at 30 times 50 and sometimes 100 percent though nothing is open. The only thing that can be, is that I have downloaded from chip the program gimp. Now I'm afraid that there's a virus in there. I had that almost 100 percent load on my other laptop and it had the problem even if you put it back to factory settings. My question is now:
Can I fix it or buy a new hard drive? Because if it is a virus, are graphics card motherboard ram and cpu yes not affected or?
If it is a virus, it is on the system or on the hard drive. Try to install https://de.malwarebytes.com/...bytes.com/, which often finds such things.
You can fix that already, but you just have to know where the problem is coming from!
The CPU, GPU, motherboard and Co. Can be affected, it depends only on whether, and if so, what virus it is!
You can call the task manager and see what process is causing you the load. To do this, press CTRL-ALT-DEL, then select the task manager
out.
High load can also be caused by excessive memory usage if your system needs to use the paging file without end. Also you should be able to find out in the task manager.
Unfortunately, Chip makes such stupid installers with a lot of unwanted software, and it is already possible that you have packed any garbage software on the system. Search the task manager for processes with high processor load or high memory usage and search their names via Google. Then see if you can uninstall such programs.
Do not install such software through downloads from specific sources. Unfortunately, Chip has become a bad source of software. Heise is much better suited.
Task Manager → Performance → Resource Monitor
If you now find the appropriate programs or services with a high load, then you have practically helped yourself - by using the applications in question, for example. Uninstall again.
If the notebook was a few years older, then it may be synonymous schonmal on the CPU fan, which is then possibly totally dusty. But then makes more "only" sounds and brings the notebook - if the processor gets too hot, crash.
I do not really want to believe in a virus except Windows. Look what was installed at the same time with Gimp, often you will, imprudently, with programs such as Dashline, Avast, "accelerators", for example, forcibly. Depending on where you downloaded. Then often the CPU runs 20 minutes full speed before it gets quiet again. Sort by apps and features by date and you'll see what's been there lately. Gimp himself is good
Start the Task Manager and watch for performance. Which programs do the CPU need? Is the memory significantly over 50%?
For security: Antivirus you have. Which side did you download GIMP from?
If you really want to can of course restart. If you delete all partitions and repartitioning and formatting then with 99.9% security all viruses have been removed. Viruses sitting in the Master Boot Record are very rare.
