Virus Software and Performance

[brian0526]

My iMac is getting painfully slow. I recently downloaded Virex 7.5 which has background scanning and file checking capabilities. Is it possible this is what is slowing down my system? If so, does anyone know how I can remove it?

Secondly, are there routine maintenance things I should be doing? I'm a former Windows guy. Should I be defragging my drive or zapping my PRAM or something? Is there a utility I can buy to help "tune up" my system?

Thanks,
Brian

 

[jeremy.king]

Cant speak to Virex, but here are a couple suggestions if you haven't done so already.

Repair permissions and run fsck
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/89736/

Get MacJanitor and run the cleanup scripts
http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/macjanitor.html