I'm unsure what's happening, someone please let me know if this is normal

[Mr Black]

I have a 2.16Ghz Macbook with one gig of ram and a 120 gig HDD, Ive had it for a week and in the last 2 or 3 days its been really slowing down. I ran Clamxav and found one virus and deleted it. Now whenever Clamxav, or really any other app the CPU % will spike up. Sometimes reaching 90+ %. What could be causing this?

Any help would be appreciated

 

[Peace]

What was the name of the virus Clamxav found?

 

[Eidorian]

1. Why did you install ClamxAV?
2. I've found virus scanners tend to eat all resources on heavy disk usage.
3. What virus did you find?

 

[Mr Black]

I installed clamxav b/c 4 or 5 days ago my macbook started acting strange and I wanted to be safe than sorry. It turned out that a volume needed repaired. Since then everythings been getting slower and slower. I put a gig of ram in today (I now have 1.5) and with just safari open my free memory is going down and if I whenever an app is doing something the cpu spikes, two apps both hit the high 90's. The "virus" was in an adobe preference file. I dont recall the name. Hopefully that helps.

 

[Eidorian]

I installed clamxav b/c 4 or 5 days ago my macbook started acting strange and I wanted to be safe than sorry. It turned out that a volume needed repaired. Since then everythings been getting slower and slower. I put a gig of ram in today (I now have 1.5) and with just safari open my free memory is going down and if I whenever an app is doing something the cpu spikes, two apps both hit the high 90's. The "virus" was in an adobe preference file. I dont recall the name. Hopefully that helps.

Have you installed any Adobe products?

I'm honestly thinking something is broken in ClamAV or it's typical active scanner processor and disk usage. My Windows machines drag when I try to download, copy, or extract an archive because the antivirus wants to scan everything.

I still don't see a reason as to why you installed ClamAV. You're not going to be getting any benefit from it.

 

[Mr Black]

I uninstalled clamxav yesterday and its still happening

 

[Mr Black]

And yes I installed Adobe Design Suite Premium CS3. I uninstalled it yesterday as well and no change.

 

[elfin buddy]

Go into your activity monitor and look for programs with high CPU usage (you can rank them in either ascending or descending order).

 

[thetacoman]

Or open up terminal and enter "top"