Re: Slow XP Boot

From: Gerry Cornell (gcjc_at_btinternet.com)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:08:40 -0000

Bill

The scan by Norton will take some time. Have you tried measuring it's
impact?

Have the looked at the timing of reports in the System section of Event
Viewer? Are there any error reports?

Have you tried HiJackThis? 

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"Bill Maxwell" <sam@nodamnspam.com> wrote in message 
news:%23iu%23qSY$EHA.1904@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> I've run every spyware program (spybot, adaware, MS Antispyware). I've 
> scaned with Norton and Trendmicro's housecall. And came up with 
> nothhing. I've formated my machine about 2 months ago and that didn't 
> solve the problem. The only thing running on startup is Norton 
> Antivirus.
>
> "John Blaustein" <no@spam.com> wrote in message 
> news:%23n72miX$EHA.2580@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> Carl,
>>
>> Have you tried running the new MS AntiSpyware (BETA)?  Here's the 
>> link:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en
>>
>> John
>>
>> "Carl lackey" <clackey3@earthlink.net> wrote in message 
>> news:%23kBFBBX$EHA.3616@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>>> Bill Maxwell wrote:
>>>
>>>> When windows is loading the little scroll bar starts out at a 
>>>> normal speed but about 6 seconds into loading it slows down to a 
>>>> crawl. I can hit any keyboard key once, sometimes twice and then I 
>>>> goes right back to normal and loads the GUI within 2 secs. If I 
>>>> don't press anything it takes almost 90 more seconds to fully load. 
>>>> I've gone as far as reloading XP and loading service pack two with 
>>>> all current updates. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Note: All three hard drives are 7200 rpm with 8mb cache. Windows 
>>>> drive is 120gb, slave 180gb, secondary master 200gb. With 2 512mb 
>>>> memory sticks which I have tried replacing.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> If booted the XP CD to "Repair" your system, it is most likely that 
>>> any ad-ware, spyware or trojan you have is still there.  The 
>>> registry is still interacts and when the trojan starts up.
>>>
>>> Three of 4 machines brought to me in the last week have been 
>>> infected, and in each case, one of the following exists:
>>>
>>> 1. Adware removal tool found it and said it was removed, but a 
>>> re-scan finds it still there.
>>>
>>> 2. Adware removal tools and anti-virus do NOT find it.
>>>
>>> 3. Trojan has more than one component that "watches" each other, and 
>>> if one gets killed or removed, the other ones restart it.  These are 
>>> really tough to handle.
>>>
>>> Carl
>>
>>
>
>

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