Re: Windows Explorer HUGE performance issues
- From: "Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:23:42 GMT
Penny wrote:
The problem I'm having is NOT IE it's windows explorer. I have tried everybody and their brothers spyware tools, Microsoft's malware remover and nothing has helped. It may not be spyware, in honesty I have spent many hours on this problem and am at wits end.
I had a similar problem with a failing drive cable. You could also use a program like Everest to make sure that the power supply is not failing causing problems with other parts.
What makes this worse is I opened a problem ticket with Microsoft today, got transferred all over the place and got put on hold for over an hour - I'm not even sure what the problem is, but if I can get through to someone I want to ask if there is a diagnostic tool I can use that will tell me more information.
Does anyone know of such a tool that might give me more information about the problem?
"TRABEM" wrote:
Penny, I read your message with great interest. I had an unexplained slow down, which turned out NOT to be spyware....but it took many many hours to track down the problem.
In the process, I discovered the IE browser hijacker problem, which is the new frontier in terms of security threats.
Many advocate dumping IE due to it's susceptibility to browser hijacking, a problem that Bill has failed to address, even to this day.
I found a very nice website set up to test susceptibility of your browser to intrusion from many different types of attack. I think I DIDN'T bookmark it, but it was called 'Jason's Toolbox'.
My IE passed, but only because of high awareness and custom settings with regard to activeX, the tool that enables the most severe type of browser security breaches.
In a nutshell, if you have activeX enabled, your browser can be redirected to anywhere...without your knowledge. You think you're on the checkout website of amazon.com giving your credit card number....and in fact you are on a Siberian located dial up system handing out your personal information. You get the idea I'm sure.
As the final phase of our computer clean up, we are going to dumb down IE so severely that it can only get microsoft upgrades...and use Firefox browser.
Regards.
T
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:47:02 -0700, "rosebeauty" <rosebeauty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, Penny,
I am posting the following, with the thought in mind that you might have spyware that scans have not found.
Somehow, somewhere, within the last week, my machine became infected with 3 spywares and 1 spy cookie. All this occurred in spite of the fact that I run with daily updated Norton AntiVirus, ZoneAlarm Pro, Ad-Aware SE Personal, SpywareBlaster, PestPatrol, Spy Sweeper, Spyware Doctor and CounterSpy. Scans found nothing except CounterSpy, which found IST.IST (Browser Hijacker), 007 Keylogger Spy 3.7 (Surveillance), Force 1.59 (Backdoor) and Hotbar (Cookie). Ad-Aware found 18 negligible items and nothing else. I have Windows XP Home Edition SP2 with all critical updates installed. I have been to very few websites - all considered to be safe - and have downloaded only one questionable software package, that being, Agent Ransack. I had scanned the download with Norton AV, but I had not installed it. I use IE6, which is patched with all available Microsoft patches, and I do not use any IM or P2P software. Windows Messenger is held in check with ZoneAlarm Pro configuration.
If my machine could get infected with all this shielding, perhaps your machines have spyware that your scans have not detected. I highly recommend that you try CounterSpy.
HTH
"Penny" wrote:
Pentium 4 2.26G machine with 768mb of RAM. 40 Gig hard drive. Pagefile is 1.1g.
This is an XP machine SP2. This is also happening to a machine that's identical to mine in specs, except it's a W2K SP4 machine.
"Jim" wrote:
"Penny" <Penny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:96556F3F-03D0-47C9-B831-B052EA8F56C7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm experiencing HUGE performance problems with my machine! I believe the
problem might be with Windows explorer. When I go into windows explorer it
takes a full minute to open any type of document.
When going into task manager, there's no obvious high CPU or memory being
used. This is not an obvious problem and I have spent DAYS trying to
research the this with no answers. I ran virus scans, defragged, all the
usual stuff that might fix such oddities all to no avail. Now I have several
users encountering the same problem. In a failed attempt to fix my own
machine I ran a utility called lspfix, which totally messed my machine up and
had to format and start over.
This is NOT the solution, I've got to find some answers. Since this is happening here, I'm sure someone else has encountered this and am hoping someone has figured out what to do. HELP
How about giving the system specs? There are lots and lots of reasons for performance hits, but without knowing things like amount of ram, size of pagefile, size of system disk, type of cpu, specifications of the disks, etc., it will be hard to give more than a wild guess.
Jim
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