Re: System Speed since Reinstall???

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From: ed (ed_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 08:13:03 -0700

I did a total clean reinstall.
McAfee VS 7 found a virus and deleted it but whenver i rebooted it was there again.
Adaware, Spybot and CS (?) Shredder didnt find a thing.
The McAfee help people even suggested a reinstall as a worst case scenario, which this was!

Ive personally found Adaware and Spybot to be useless. especially if you get the 'Search from Address' spyware/virus.

Ive also found the stuff on Kellys to not work at all!
Thanks anyway.
Guess Ill just have to suffer!

"Jone Doe" wrote:

>
> "ed" <ed@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:73AFFDF6-EEF2-4AA1-9934-1C527A92C359@microsoft.com...
> > Hi
> > Since Ive had to reinstall (due to spyware, and possible virus) some of
> the 'system' routines run really slow. eg When I click on the Clear History
> button under Internet Options the egg timer comes on for quite a while (ok
> about a minute) compared to before the reinstall, even if theres only like
> one website in the history.
> >
> > When I right click to clear Recent Documnets under the Advanced Start Menu
> it is the same.
> > Shutdown seems really slow too....
> >
> > Im using XP Home, ive only got a 900mhz AMD Athlon processor with a 40gb
> hd but it seemed much faster before.....
> >
> > any ideas???
> > THANKS!
>
> I don't understand why you HAD to reinstall. Why not just fix what every
> problem with spyware using adaware and spybot, and do a decent virus scan
> fix for any virus?
>
> Try some of Kelly's excellent information and see if you can fix it. We
> don't know what changes you made or why.
>
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