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Network randomly stops working
Hi so I think I may have malware, I've done scans with a bunch of tools and not much has popped up however the issue I'm having is becoming super frustrating. I'm on an ethernet connection.
Whenever I boot my machine, it can take up to 20 mins to connect to the internet. It says it's connected but pages load really slowly and it's barely useable. Then after it starts working, about an hour two later it will stop working properly again, but the strange thing is that if I'm playing a game or connected to something, then that specific thing won't be effected at all, but any new connections I try to make will. Also when this issue starts to happen, some software doesn't open, it's as if it's 'paused', and when the issue stops, it will open up and resume as normal.
Does this sound like malware? What can I do to try to fix it without reinstalling windows?