19-07-2004, 18:43
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virus...I think!?!
Wondering if anyone can help. My brother brought his PC to my house recently because it went on a go slow!. i looked through the process list but couldn't find anything untoward. He was running Zone Alarm and an up-to-date NAV. The machine was un-usable, so I ended up re-imaging it. Today another friend has phoned, and she has the same symptons. The PC boots up ok, but when you go to open a folder the CPU reads 100%?!. I can't re-image hers as it has been supplied by her work, Has anyone any ideas as to what they picked up?, both are running XP.
HELP
PS;thanks inadvance for your time
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19-07-2004, 19:00
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Re: virus...I think!?!
Opening folders and hitting 100% is usually a harddrive about to die or severe fragmentation or virus checker is doing "On Access Scan" of the folder but is struggling to read the contents...
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19-07-2004, 20:07
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Re: virus...I think!?!
NAV2004? i upgraded from NAV2003 to NAV2004 and my performance went through the floor
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19-07-2004, 21:07
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Re: virus...I think!?!
@ womble a little bit more info would be useful , maybe try adaware or summat similar , or how about an online virus scan , the more info the better
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19-07-2004, 21:30
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Re: virus...I think!?!
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Originally Posted by paulyoung666
@ womble a little bit more info would be useful , maybe try adaware or summat similar , or how about an online virus scan , the more info the better
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could try this one
http://www.webroot.com/services/spyaudit_03.htm
- I've been using the Spy Sweeper product by the same people & so far it has found things that Adaware & Spybot have missed. I havn't tried the spyaudit app, myself, but it, or the trial version of spysweeper, might be an idea?
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20-07-2004, 03:22
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Re: virus...I think!?!
when I arrived at her house I was surprised to see there was no AV software and only the XP firewall! (and this PC was supplied from her IT dept!!). Ran adware & Spybot 3 or 4 times each, they found shedloads of c**p, every time I ran tham they found something differant, but eventually the pop-ups stopped. Uninstalled a corrupt copy of Nero, and hey-presto CPU back to normal!. Have installed NIS 2003 and a fresh copy of Nero and all is well.
Thanks for your import peeps, as always it is much appreciated
So long and thanks for the fish!
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20-07-2004, 03:23
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Re: virus...I think!?!
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Originally Posted by homealone
could try this one
http://www.webroot.com/services/spyaudit_03.htm
- I've been using the Spy Sweeper product by the same people & so far it has found things that Adaware & Spybot have missed. I havn't tried the spyaudit app, myself, but it, or the trial version of spysweeper, might be an idea?
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Thanks I'll give it a wizz
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20-07-2004, 10:12
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Re: virus...I think!?!
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Originally Posted by homealone
could try this one
http://www.webroot.com/services/spyaudit_03.htm
- I've been using the Spy Sweeper product by the same people & so far it has found things that Adaware & Spybot have missed. I havn't tried the spyaudit app, myself, but it, or the trial version of spysweeper, might be an idea?
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I have just been reading a review of that Gaz, it gets top marks on this site.
http://www.anti-spyware-review.toptenreviews.com/
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20-07-2004, 10:20
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Re: virus...I think!?!
For SpySweeper look here - great product IMO.
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=14551
As for this thread - although Spyware would be causeing issues i would have thought the main problem was Nero in this case and not the spyware.
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20-07-2004, 13:56
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Re: virus...I think!?!
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What I forgot to metion last night/this morning...it was 3am! when I looked thru the add and remove list e-mule was showing itself as 1.06gig instead of 7.65mb! so that might have had something to do with it aswell.
What i want to know is When will these people learn???
No AV+No Firewall=****e
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