RichieST

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right, got a laptop from my mate, with the brief to fix it

He's been surfing 'adult entertainment' websites with no virus protection, so as you can imagine, there are viruses littered all over it.

I've put some virus software on it (zone alarm, avast and ad-aware), installed windows SP2 and all the updates, which seems to have got rid of all the viruses, but it now has another problem. When it is on, even if it is just sitting idle, the hard drive is constantly churning away, with the green light constantly flickering. It is not doing any virus scans, as I have switched all these off. So the computer now runs at a snails pace constantly!

Anyone got any ideas as to what the problem could be?

thanks in advance

one stumped rich

Adrian

Bring up task manager and see if any processes are maxing anything out.

Run Spybot search & destroy as Ad Aware doesnt pick up everything.

ECU Monitor Enthusiast

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Turn off windows file indexing service

RichieST

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cheers adrian i'll give it a go


electronic -
how would i do this??

pee vee

Smash it with a hammer and claim on insurance


any luck with my engine bits

RichieST

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yeah, done them mate, waiting for you to come pick them up, unless they went out with the rubbish today, they were in a carrier bag next to the bin pile in the garage so i hope not

pee vee

FFS if ol Jenny has slung them out.. she will Feel the same wrath she
used to show me



* it is Jenny right?? always thought it was anyway

PastyKing

Rich i didnt come down and peel the centre out of them wheel stencils today
im a bad boy

RichieST

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who the fuck is jenny

collierm

Couple of things as a test.

Stop the Automatic Updates service - Some windows patch has fooked this service and it becomes a resource hog

Kill the AshServ32 process. The server component of avast, not really needed.

It'll run fine.

RichieST

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ok cheers for that. it all seems to be running ok now, but there are still a few infected files in the windows folder, which i am unsure weather to delete or not. they won't repair. and when surfing the net, it is being attacked by pop ups, even tho the pop up blocker is set to block all pop ups!!

any ideas??

collierm

Post a Hijack This log, it'll be easier to see what the problem is.

BM08

go on to http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ and do a free virus scan, it picks up virus,trojans, spyware etc, and it does work because ive used it myself
Note that you will need to download a small file probably before it will scan and it will take at least 10mins or more to complete