Re: Windows Xp Home retail is taking ten minutes to load.

Hi John
I have the following spyware.Aol Spyware, CCleaner, Hijack this,
CWshredder,Windows defender, Stinger Virus, Spybot serch and destroy, Adaware
lavasoft.
I am going through the process of doing all virus scans and spyware scans.
So please be patient ? as you know it takes a while.
Thank you for all your help and I will get back to you soon.

Brian

"John7" wrote:

Hi Appy33,


You need at least:
A. Spybot Search and Destroy www.safer-networking.org
B. Adaware
www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
C. Ccleaner www.ccleaner.com

1. You have all major protection software....
Go check it's trustworthyness at:
www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm
There is software disguised as protection software which does the opposite.
Remove rogue software.
DO NOT REBOOT unless told.

2. Open up Task Manager (CTL+ALT+DEL), tab Processes.
Use google to see what is said about the individual pocesses.
www.liutilities.com a.o. provides trustworthy info.
Kill the dangerous ones.
DO NOT REBOOT unless told..

From now on: DO NOT START INTERNET EXPLORER untill finished.

3. Run Spybot Search & Destroy
Immunize your system
Go to Mode | Advanced mode, click Tools down left.
Enable tools: Resident, ActiveX, BHOs, browser Pages, IE tweaks, Hosts File,
Process List, System startup, Winsock LSPs
In left pane walk down the selected tools.
In Resident: enable SDhelper., consider TeaTimer.
In ActiveX: remove Red marked ones, carefully check the unmarked.
In BHOs: remove Red marked ones, carefully check the unmarked.
In Browser Page: change hijacks to www.google.com or something.
In Hosts File: Add Spybot S&D hosts list.
In System Startup: disable suspicious files (those found at Task Manager
manual kill)
In Winsock LSPs: remove red marked ones.
Go to tab Spybot S&D (top left).
Scan system, remove infections.
DO NOT REBOOT unless told.

4. Run Adaware to scan system and remove malware.
DO NOT REBOOT unless told.

5. Run Ccleaner to clean out the far corners.

6. Reboot and see how system performs now.
If malware comes back repeat the above.

7. Consider disk check, then defrag.

HTH,
John


"appy33" <appy33@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Ken
I am sorry I didn'tleave any computer details.
I have Microsoft one Care. I have a Intel Celeron 2.4Ghz. 60Ghz Hdrive. I
have all major spyware programs. and even when I have run then all I still
have a very slow start up computer running very slow.

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

appy33 wrote:

Can any person help with this matter. I am running windos xp home
retail version.
the computer is taking about ten minutes to load and then is running
very slowly.


It's very difficult to tell what's wrong, since you've provided very
little
information, but such problems are very often caused by infestation of
spyware and/or viruses. What anti-virus and anti-spyware programs do you
run, and do you keep them up to date with the latest definitions?


--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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