is there anyway of telling if your computer been hacked mine been really slow and making noises like it doing something

 

right click on the windows task bar and go to task manager, see whats using all your CPU and memory. that'll be what is making the hard disks go crackers ! post the processes up here and we'll see if we can help you out as to what they are.

Have you got any bittorrent running? i know ABC bittorrent client thrashes the fuck out of your disks and CPU, i switched to using uTorrent and its loads better

 

not sure what to do

 

If you go into processes you can see whats using your memory up. it's in the right hand column. if you click on the top of the column you can sort them high > low.

you'll see something like

firefox.exe <username> 00 32,765KB

the figure at the end is how much memory it is using, the ones with higher numbers are the important ones and are most likely to be the ones that are thrashing the tits off your disk

 

51,078k on firefox. is that about right ?

 

cant find it how do you get the taskbar

 

press control+ alt +delete then click on the process tab

 

Thats fine

 

Remember to show us a screenshot of it to save you typing it all out, when its on screen hit the print screen key, open up windows paint, press edit at the top then paste, save the pic and post it up

 

is there anything dodgy on mine

 

Have you ran a spyware scan and how much free hard drive space have you got on your machine, if you run out of hard drive space the Page File and the Master File Table get really fragmented which can slow your machine down and will need a good defrag.

 

found it but not able to print it on to screen can you explain what i do now

 

make the process box full screen, then hit the Print screen-SysRq key (next to scroll lock)
then open MS paint
then go to EDIT
then click paste

 

nothing happens

 

You may need to press alt + prt screen together, then paste it into MS Paint and it should capture everything

 

Short of goggling every process you cant tell 100% but just from scanning through it i cant see anything that seems fishy, plus 32 processes is pretty normal anyway, i wouldn't worry

 

cheers mate