How do I kill all programs?

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I'm experiencing hanging for the first time.

How do I kill all programs in such a case. Secondly please inform me how I can find out whether my laptop is infected with virus or not. I am not using any antivirus package at present.

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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To kill all the processes that you have the permission to kill,open terminal and run the command

kill -15 -1 or kill -9 -1.

To learn how to scan read the answer to this question:

How can I scan for possible viruses on my Ubuntu system?

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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answered Oct 27 '15 at 00:47

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