Computer going ssllooww

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Jul 25 2005, 10:58 am
I've ran Spyware doctor like, 4 times, and deleted all the infections, but my computer is still going really ssllooww. =/
What do you guys think the problem is? And do you know of a solution?
Jul 25 2005, 11:15 am
defrag your hd after you've removed programs you'll never use again. Also, download ad-aware and spybot search and destroy. Those two will get most the virus's on your computer.
Jul 25 2005, 11:22 am
In response to Jon Snow
I'll defrag my PC later, but Spybot turned up very little things, and as it was checking things, it came across tons of spyware and crap and didn't add it to the list. :/
Jul 25 2005, 11:24 am
In response to Ol' Yeller
Rambooster.
Get it at download.com
Trust me its good =)
Oh, and sometimes its your connection.
Jul 25 2005, 11:28 am
In response to Ol' Yeller
Defrag, run Disk Cleanup. You might want to look through msconfig to see what's getting started up at runtime, there are things you may not want to be running. Also, Ad-Aware and Spybot are great. I also suggest, if you have a fast connection, using Trend-Micro's online virus/spyware scan (http://housecall.trendmicro.com/), it found some spyware and adware that Spybot nor Ad-aware was finding. Also, AntiVir Xp is a pretty good, free virus scanner, I suggest it.

P_S
Jul 25 2005, 11:30 am
In response to RaditzX
_>
This is NOT my connection, I can promise you that. EVERYTHING is going like, 10x slower.
Jul 25 2005, 11:36 am
In response to Ol' Yeller
That's bad. I hope you haven't been got. If you have, meaning you've been virused upon, then back everything up asap. As a matter of fact, even if you just think that you have, it's probably for the better that you back things up. And for a last resort, if the things we mentioned don't work, do a fresh install of windows. I'm about to myself because, for whatever reason, when I change my background, it changes another users account background. But when she changes hers, it doesn't change mine. =/ I could change mine to whatever I want, then let her changes hers, but I just don't like knowing that something is wrong with my account.

P_S
Jul 25 2005, 12:21 pm
In response to Prodigal Squirrel
I think ad-aware did the job, deleting 428 files and all whilst quarantining 6 of them.
My PC is back to normal speed, but I'll prolly stick back it up my important files. =p
Jul 25 2005, 12:28 pm
In response to Ol' Yeller
Also, Microsoft(I know evil) anti-spyware is pretty good. Just go to microsoft and search spyware remover. It seems to work well. It was not made by microsoft, they just bought it from someone else.
Jul 25 2005, 12:29 pm
In response to Prodigal Squirrel
Trendmicro found 13085 threats, yay!
[edit]Woohoo, I have to pay money to remove them!
Jul 25 2005, 12:31 pm
In response to Scoobert
I'll try that if I can't get Trendmicro's WindFixer 2005 thingie to remove the bajillion threats I got.
Jul 25 2005, 12:37 pm
In response to Ol' Yeller
AVG is a great anti-virus, it has never failed me. Also, it is free.
Jul 25 2005, 1:18 pm
In response to Ol' Yeller
I didn't. Housecall is supposed to be free.

P_S
Jul 26 2005, 1:23 pm
In response to Scoobert
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 - AVG Free Edition

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html - Spybot (Recommend downloading from BetaNews mirror if you get it)

http://www.kaspersky.com/downloads - Kaspersky

These are all pretty good and have worked for me.
Edit(Fixed link to Spybot)