Laptop keeps shutting down alone

Guccimoluna

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So for a few days now my laptop hasn't been working properly. I have a Vaio Duo 13 and I download movies on it from utorrent. I use Kaspersky anti virus thingy to check every time if there's a virus or anything but it always says 0 threats.

For example, I downloaded a movie and it was in an .mkv file and I couldn't watch it without converting it to an .avi file or anything or downloading an mkv player. I decided to download a .mkv player. So I watch it from there. But everytime I open the mkv player I get a notification thingy saying that the publisher is unknown and stuff but I click run anyway. So when I watch the movie, sometimes it's stops and the screen just goes black and it shuts down sometimes and other times I just have to click the space bar to open it.

And things have been so slow, like if I need to watch something, it takes forever to load. Is this because I'm downloading too many movies and stuff? It'd mean so much if you helped me because school will start soon and I'm gonna need to use my laptop more. Any help would be appreciated. Please help me. And thank you so much :) <3
 
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What I would epect is a virus, and not all virus protections do the best job at detecting this kind of stuff. I just got a couple viruses the other day and I had up-to-date Kaspersky, and it did not warn me of nor detect any problem. I would open task manager ctr-alt-del > Task Manager and look for any suspicioud viruses or applications. If you find any, right-click and "open folder location". Then in task manager, terminate the process right-click > terminate and then complete shift-delete the folder of that bad process.

But make sure not to delete anything you shouldn't. Kaspersky provides a task manager of its own which I like a lot and it shows what it trusted and not trusted. But check out your RAM and CPU usage, as wel as...

turkey3_scratch

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What I would epect is a virus, and not all virus protections do the best job at detecting this kind of stuff. I just got a couple viruses the other day and I had up-to-date Kaspersky, and it did not warn me of nor detect any problem. I would open task manager ctr-alt-del > Task Manager and look for any suspicioud viruses or applications. If you find any, right-click and "open folder location". Then in task manager, terminate the process right-click > terminate and then complete shift-delete the folder of that bad process.

But make sure not to delete anything you shouldn't. Kaspersky provides a task manager of its own which I like a lot and it shows what it trusted and not trusted. But check out your RAM and CPU usage, as wel as hard drive usage, too. Task manager should show what company the process or program is by, so don't delete trusted corporation stuff. Usually a virus would be taking up an extremely large amount of resources compared to other stuff and have funky old-pixelated images sometimes, too, next to the task.
 
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