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soo my ram is well kOe2k1m.pngsoo lets do some math i got 8 GB of ram, and if i add all of the programs

 kkvrBCp.png it does not add to 65% what is going on? a virus?

hmmm. Might be worth running Malwarebytes, but if you don't have Firefox open it could be a crazy addon that is making Firefox go nuts. I would also turn up the virus sheild on the AVG settings and run a full scan, if you can.  Hope this helps ^^

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hmmm. Might be worth running Malwarebytes, but if you don't have Firefox open it could be a crazy addon that is making Firefox go nuts. I would also turn up the virus sheild on the AVG settings and run a full scan, if you can.  Hope this helps ^^

ok so I've finish runnin malwarebytes and AVG thing. 1 threat on AVG and 50ish on malwarebytes from are from IE...i dont even use IE and my memory is still high now what

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ok so I've finish runnin malwarebytes and AVG thing. 1 threat on AVG and 50ish on malwarebytes from are from IE...i dont even use IE and my memory is still high now what

Once you remove those threats I recommend running Ccleaner.  Clean out all the junk and afterwards Reboot your  computer to clear out the memory and You also need to keep in mind that they could be temp files that are infected, the USB Autorun Virus or something like that.  Just remove them to the quarantine and the AVG Virus Vault so that if anything goes wrong you can restore back.  Please also re-install Firefox and remove/disable all firefox addons.  While doing this use a program called KillSwitch as administrator and filter all the safe processes.  This will allow you to see all unknown/malicious processes.  To see what is making Firefox or anything pound your RAM.  Make sure Windows 8.1/8 is up to date and if you aren't using 8.1 update to it as there is a possibility your Memory Firmware could be exploited.  Hope this helps :)

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Once you remove those threats I recommend running Ccleaner.  Clean out all the junk and afterwards Reboot your  computer to clear out the memory and You also need to keep in mind that they could be temp files that are infected, the USB Autorun Virus or something like that.  Just remove them to the quarantine and the AVG Virus Vault so that if anything goes wrong you can restore back.  Please also re-install Firefox and remove/disable all firefox addons.  While doing this use a program called KillSwitch as administrator and filter all the safe processes.  This will allow you to see all unknown/malicious processes.  To see what is making Firefox or anything pound your RAM.  Make sure Windows 8.1/8 is up to date and if you aren't using 8.1 update to it as there is a possibility your Memory Firmware could be exploited.  Hope this helps :)

oh man thats a lot of things to do, but ok ill get back to you once i finish :D

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Once you remove those threats I recommend running Ccleaner.  Clean out all the junk and afterwards Reboot your  computer to clear out the memory and You also need to keep in mind that they could be temp files that are infected, the USB Autorun Virus or something like that.  Just remove them to the quarantine and the AVG Virus Vault so that if anything goes wrong you can restore back.  Please also re-install Firefox and remove/disable all firefox addons.  While doing this use a program called KillSwitch as administrator and filter all the safe processes.  This will allow you to see all unknown/malicious processes.  To see what is making Firefox or anything pound your RAM.  Make sure Windows 8.1/8 is up to date and if you aren't using 8.1 update to it as there is a possibility your Memory Firmware could be exploited.  Hope this helps :)

... i just face palm so hard... it was chrome... it turned out that it saved each tab as a "background task" in task manager and each tab is only taking 50MB but there's like 40 of them... thank you so much anyways you are the B0ss

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... i just face palm so hard... it was chrome... it turned out that it saved each tab as a "background task" in task manager and each tab is only taking 50MB but there's like 40 of them... thank you so much anyways you are the B0ss

No worries, Chrome is actually quite heavy these days. I know a friend with 2GB of RAM. 5 Tabs of Chrome made his PC Crash...

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No worries, Chrome is actually quite heavy these days. I know a friend with 2GB of RAM. 5 Tabs of Chrome made his PC Crash...

ya, I using just firefox and added 2x2GB of RAM that i found in the closet, mess about in the bios and now have 12 GBs :DJBtmpPm.png

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