Re: Long delay after booting

From: Phillip Windell (_at_.)
Date: 02/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:38:54 -0600

It may be trashed. Spyware is known to trash systems sometimes even worse
than a virus could. That is why so much effert should be put into preventing
it to begin with because "clean-ups" are not a sure thing.

It sounds like you have not succeeded in cleaning it up,..or you have a
virus in additon to the spyware,..or still have both at the same time. It is
impossible for me to say. With our machines here I can re-ghost them or
swap them out with another clean machine much faster than screwing around
with it. In the machines I replace them with (or in the new Ghost image) I
have used more thorough methods to prevent the spyware than I had before
which mostly consist of running Spybot on the machine with the
"immunization" maintained and keeping the browser security settings high and
teach the user how to use the Trusted Sites Zone. I don't expect there will
ever be a perfect solution. 

-- 
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com
"Lurker" <invalid@invalid.it> wrote in message
news:%23JjwiHZGFHA.1188@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> After I removed some malware from a Win2000 machine (using Sysclean,
SpyBot
> S&D and Ad-aware) I now have a problem for which I couldn't find an
> explanation on Google.
> Every time Windows loads, it will freeze for about 15 minutes. After
logging
> in, the blue desktop and the taskbar would appear, but no icons. I can
open
> the boot menu, either with the "Windows" key on the kybd or with the
mouse,
> and try to start some application. Some would start (Notepad, Word)
> immediately, other would be delayed until the "freezing" is off (Explorer,
> MSIE). After 15 minutes or so every window I tried to open comes up,
desktop
> icons appear, and everything starts working regularly. It would appear
that
> windows explorer is waiting for something. No errors on event viewer.
> During the "freezing", task manager indicates no CPU activity, while the
HDD
> led blinks very shortly every two minutes or so. This happens even after I
> removed every application from HKLM/Software/Windows/Current Version/Run,
> but not in safe mode.
> Also, after I disconnect from ADSL, every activity will again be
impossible
> for some 10-15 minutes. In this case it would be impossible to start any
> application, and the taskbar becomes completely grey, with no icons on it.
> Thus, possibly the problem is caused by some odd network configuration.
The
> system is networked with another machine (cross cable), but everything
> appears to work correctly, apart from this issue.
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks (and excuse me for my English).
> Marco.
>
>
>

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