My computer has a hard time shutting down or restarting. The past several days I've had to manually turn it off via the power button. Further, it is running very slow. I notice that when it runs slow "Giant Antispyware Updater" is running. This is happening daily. I am also not able to get updates for the Adaware tool. Any thoughts? Thanks.

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