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Answer» Hi Hi 1. Scan for Viruses, Trojan horses and spyware 2. What program is causing this? 3. Could be due to user-abuse. 4. See 3. 5. See 3. First use the following programs to remove all security threats. Then continue to clean up the Hard Disk Drive by means of defragmentation, registry cleaning and other such tasks. Virus scanners AVG Free -- Anti virus scanner Trend Micro Housecall -- Online anti virus scanner. Anti spy/malware Microsoft Antispyware -- Anti spyware scanner. Windows XP Home and Professional only. Spybot Search & Destroy -- Anti spyware scanner Adaware SE Personal -- Anti spyware scanner Firewalls Using only one firewall is advised. Dual firewalls MAY cause problems. Using a hardware firewall and a software firewall is even more adviced. ZoneAlarm Free -- Free firewall - more user friendly Sygate Personal -- Free firewall - more configuration options Removal tools The following files are not substitutes for the ones described above. They are either diagnostic tools or removal tools for malware of a certain kind HijackThis -- Manual malware remover. Post the HijackThis log generated only if requested! McAfee Stinger -- Virus removal tool. No substitute for a fully functional virus scanner! CWshredder -- CoolWebSearch removal tool. Widely known and persistant Hijacker. Easy Cleaners -- Freeware registry scanner Registrar Lite -- Excellent replacement for Windows Regedit Crap Cleaner -- Freeware registry scanner/history cleaner Caution is advised when using these programs! Create backups of all important files before proceeding. Quote What is happening to my computer I got lots of data in my computer coz this is company computer Back up all the important data first. See if the following article is of use: My computer is running slow what steps can I do to fix it?The computer specs are!.......is does have a bearing on load times etc!More RAM often helps slow boot times. I have seen boot times drop by half simply by doubling the amount of installed RAM.Well i dont know about RAM mac. I upgraded myself to 1024 megs a month back and it went really fast but not its really slow sutting down. I dont think this is due to viruses but its more to the fact i have more games on my pc now and my HDD is getting one *censored* of a work out each day. But like raptor says i think you have a prob with a Trojan or a worm. Get one of the scanners and Pop it full of it. ROSS Try using the User Profile Hive Cleanup Service from MS. "Run Disk Cleanup and remove all but the last restore point. See if your System Restore cache and Recycle Bin size is set at a reasonable level (Say 1024Mb) on each drive, and reduce the IE Temporary Internet Files cache and History cache to the minimum. Install CCLeaner and clean out all of the JUNK files. Unhide all files and folders and remove the hotfix uninstallers ( $NTUninstaller$ ) from the hidden C:\Windows folder and remove their entries from Add-Remove programs. Then remove the CONTENTS of: The C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Installations folder The C: WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download folder The C:\WINDOWS\Temp folder The C:\Windows\pchealth\helpctr\Datacoll folder, and... The C:\Windows\Prefetch folder (You can add these folders to EmpTemp if you have this program installed.) Then run chkdsk and defrag." EmpTemp & CCLeaner File Cleaner To make your shutdown work cleanly install the... User Profile Hive Cleanup Service TweakUI is useful to have on your system for certain repairs... Powertoys/TweakUI |
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